707| Twin Birth at 34 Weeks + NICU Stay - Laura Attanasio
The Birth Hour - A Birth Story Podcast
Bryn Huntpalmer
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this rebroadcast from 2020, Laura shares the story of birthing her fraternal twin girls, their NICU stay, and navigating breastfeeding.
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| 0:00.0 | I think my water just broke. I felt like things really intensified. She was right there and |
| 0:09.5 | she was coming. It was amazing feeling. I'm gonna cry just thinking about it. I could |
| 0:14.7 | feel her head. We heard her cry. We were squeezing hands and she was screaming. I'm |
| 0:22.4 | Brynn Hup Palmer and you're listening to The Birth Hour. This podcast is designed as |
| 0:26.8 | a safe place for women to come together to share their childbirth stories. Stick around |
| 0:31.3 | and join us to hear informative and empowering birth journeys from women all over the world. |
| 0:40.0 | Today's episode is with Laura. She's going to be sharing a twin birth story. Her water broke |
| 0:44.2 | at 33 weeks and she stayed in the hospital until 34 weeks. So she shares that birth story |
| 0:49.1 | as well as a Nick Eustay and then experience with breastfeeding. This episode is a rebroadcast |
| 0:55.0 | from May of 2020 and we'll have a few different rebroadcasts over the next few weeks as I take |
| 1:00.8 | a little bit of time with my kids before they return to school. So stay tuned for some of these |
| 1:05.6 | episodes from our archives as well as new episodes popping up here and there throughout the next |
| 1:10.3 | couple of weeks. All right, let's get to Laura's story. Hi Laura, welcome to The Birth Hour. |
| 1:15.4 | Thanks for coming on the podcast today. Hi, thanks so much for having me. Can you tell the |
| 1:19.9 | listeners a little bit about you and your family? Sure, yeah. So I'm 36 and I live in Western |
| 1:25.9 | Massachusetts with my husband Adam and our 19 month old twins Lola and Phoebe, our dog Molly |
| 1:33.4 | and two cats and my husband and I are both faculty at a university here. All right, well let's |
| 1:40.2 | start with finding out you are pregnant. So oh, I guess one thing I want to mention is so I'm a |
| 1:46.2 | faculty member in public health and my research actually focuses on maternity care in the United |
| 1:51.5 | States and a lot of my interests and my research that I've done has to do with the high rates of |
| 1:57.9 | childbirth interventions that we have in the US including Caesareans and looking into kind of why |
| 2:02.9 | that might be and understanding how that relates to the quality of care that women receive. So I'd |
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