How your baby comes into the world, it matters. And if it matters to you as the mother, then it just matters. Once I went into labor, I mean, it was like, it was a choicelessness. It was just, it was what was happening.

That confident ability to make decisions, that is where we know we are trusting our intuition, right? When you're constantly back and forth, back and forth, I can't decide what to do. That's the anxiety. That's the fear. That's when we actually don't know what we're doing. Like you found out your baby was breached at 28 weeks and you just felt like I'm having a breached baby and I'm going to have a vaginal breach baby. And it was all so smooth and easy and kind of just felt right and natural to you.

That's when you really know that your intuition is guiding you.

I mean, it was great.

It was the birth of my dreams in a weird, unplanned way.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoiburthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and

postpartum support specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international

board certified lactation consultant. And this is the down-to-birth podcast. Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most

satisfying experience in today's medical culture? Let's dispel the myths and get down to

birth.

Hi, my name is Jesse. I am a dancer by first profession, and now I farm for a living.

So for me, I have some experience really in my body, which affected my birth, I think, in the long run.

I have two kiddos.

My stepson is nine.

And my daughter is 18 or 19 months.

So one of the most important parts of my story is that I had a totally normal pregnancy except for bleeding around 20 weeks. It resolved, but it brought me

very close in contact with sort of like that birth death dance. I remember my stepson was with me

when the bleeding started. And, you know, he's asking me, is maybe going to be okay? And I told him,

I don't know, but this is the bargain

we make you know I'm I'm allowed to bring life into the universe and so I need to have

acceptance with with death on the other side if that is what it is so I did a lot of praying and we had four really, really hard days where I thought

the worst might be happening. And it didn't. It just resolved and everything was great. And then

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