342: Focus Friday - Our Ultimate Birth Story
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
TUB is now earthside!! Sarelle Jolie was born on February 11th at 1:11am weighing 7lbs 12oz. Mom and baby are both doing amazing.
We're so excited to share our ultimate birth story with you! There is a lot to our story and it almost involved a hospital and an induction with Pitocin. With some luck and every natural protocol we could implement - we got to have our dream birth, at home :)
Thanks for joining us on our birth journey!
In this episode, we discuss:
- Acknowledging all the women who have given birth
- Hitting the 40 week milestone
- Natural induction protocols
- Potential risks involved with a hind water leak
- Our home birth nearly turned into a hospital birth
- Trying one last natural induction remedy... castor oil
- Finally contractions, home birth is back on!
- The arrival of our doula & midwives
- Trying various birthing positions & techniques throughout the day
- Manually breaking the water
- Our birthing tub experience
- Moving through the long and exhausting stages of labour
- Tough love from midwives at the end of labour
- The miraculous arrival of our baby girl!!
- Her name... Sarelle Jolie
- Delaying cord cutting and delivering the placenta
- The start of our breastfeeding journey
- We're so grateful for our birthing team
- The meaning behind Sarelle Jolie’s name
- Thank you for your love & support throughout our pregnancy & birth
Related links:
The Ultimate Birth Story (Marni's blog post)
Listen to Focus Friday – The Ultimate Baby – Our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Trimester
Our Doula - Jessica Ienna Mendez (IG: @gymdoula)
Joe Rogan episode #1425 with Garrett Reisman
Medley pull out couch (formerly called Stem Goods)
Related episodes:
315: Genevieve Howland aka Mama Natural – Preparing For A Healthy Pregnancy & Childbirth
206: Josh Gitalis – Support During Pregnancy • Boost Your Immunity • Testing For Heavy Metals
204: Meghan Telpner – A “Natural” Birth Story
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Arnie Wasserman with Jesse Chappas from the Ultimate Health |
| 0:07.7 | podcast welcome back to another Focus Friday and today we're going to be |
| 0:12.2 | sharing our ultimate birth story. This is definitely a story |
| 0:16.4 | we can't wait to share. We know a lot of you been following our journey all the way along from the |
| 0:21.5 | first to the second to the third trimester and now we our baby girl |
| 0:23.9 | along from the first to the second to the third trimester and now we are on the other side of birth. |
| 0:26.8 | Our baby girl, Sorrell, is here and we are just so excited to share this story with you. |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah, you guys have been here through the whole journey. We are just so excited to share this story with you. |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah, you guys have been here through the whole journey |
| 0:35.1 | and we're actually gonna do one more follow-up episode |
| 0:37.7 | down the line after this one, |
| 0:38.9 | sharing the fourth trimester and our adjustment |
| 0:42.2 | to becoming new parents. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, we are almost three weeks into being new parents. |
| 0:48.0 | Sorrell is three weeks old tomorrow, which is crazy to think about |
| 0:52.0 | when it's been an amazing journey. |
| 0:54.0 | So yeah, as Jesse said, we'll share fourth trimester stuff a little bit later once we've gone |
| 0:58.9 | deeper into the fourth trimester, although we've learned so much already, but today is all about the birth. |
| 1:04.5 | But first I want to acknowledge all the women out there who have given birth, all the mamas, |
| 1:10.0 | I give you such kudos, hands down, you are amazing because now being on the other side of |
| 1:17.7 | birthing a baby, it is unbelievable what goes on mentally physically |
| 1:24.0 | spiritually there is so much and you can hear birth stories over and over again as I did |
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