Within a few hours, she crashed.

They said her lungs have collapsed and that there was nothing left they could do for her.

She wasn't going to live.

And she was too unstable to even transport.

Even if she survived, she'll just be on oxygen the rest of her life, which after everything we went through with Ben, it felt very unfair and confusing.

We ended up putting a picture of her x-ray on Facebook, just asking for love, prayers, whatever people want to send our way.

And our chiropractor saw the x-ray and texted us and said, I can see what's wrong. Can I

please come adjust her? I'm Cynthia Overgard, birth educator, advocate for informed consent,

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 Show.

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.

Yeah. culture. Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. Hi, everyone. My name's Sophia Henderson. I am a mom of two kids, Benji and Gracie,

who are now 10 and 9, and I'm also a midwife. I live in Sonoma County,

California. My journey began when I was a student midwife, and we always joke that everyone's

final is getting pregnant. So I got pregnant. We weren't trying, but we know how for me.

Yeah. So we're like, okay we know how babies were made. Yeah.

So we're like, okay, let's do this.

And, yeah, I had a pretty straightforward pregnancy other than, like, I had some spotting, some bleeding, which can be really common. But it lasted until, like, 28 weeks.

So it was a little stressful.

Can I jump in with a question for both of you, you The whole bleeding thing I never really understood. Why would a woman bleed all throughout pregnancy? What's going on? Is it something with the placenta? Like what, what's going on and why is it not a concern? Well, there are a number of reasons. You can have a placenta previa. That can be a reason. You can have cervical bleeding. You can have a hematoma. What was yours, Sophia? They never found out. Yeah. It's often unknown, and it usually is self-resolving. Yeah, I had two ultrasounds. I'd gone to, like, the ER, because there was a point, like, it was just spotting at five weeks. And then at nine weeks, I just kind of, like, dumped blood into the toilet and so that's when I went to the ER, but they were like, it was just spotting at five weeks. And then at nine weeks, I just kind of like dumped blood into the toilet. And so that's when I went to the ER. But they were like,

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