Amaia's Birth Story
Hormone Healing RD
Amanda Montalvo
4.9 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I am sharing my second daughter, Amaia’s birth story. I will also be answering questions this community submitted on IG! This is my birth experience and I will say, I had a beautiful birth at home, it could not have gone better. My first birth was very painful, I thought about giving up multiple times, and had a lot of fear in the beginning. I held a lot of resentment for a while about the pain I went through but I’ve come to change my tune and be grateful for that birth. Katelyn from Happy Homebirth Podcast once told me you have the birth you need. Making the transition from maiden to mother the first time is a lot, at least it was for me. The painful birth prepared me and gave me a little taste for what was ahead. I love being a mom and my entire life revolves around my girls, but it doesn’t mean it’s not hard. It has changed me in ways I couldn’t imagine. If your birth was challenging, I hope it changed you for the better too.
I share:
- How and when my contractions started
- Tools I used for pain management during labor
- Not tensing my uterus or pelvic floor during contractions to make progress
- How my husband supported me the most
- Comparing the births of both daughters
- What I did and used after birth for recovery and healing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the R.U. Menstrual podcast where we dive deep into all things women's health to support you on your healing journey. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD. |
| 0:13.2 | If you enjoy this podcast and you want to keep learning, check out the podcast Patreon where I share a bonus episode with additional downloadable resources each week. |
| 0:22.0 | You can go to patreon.com forward slash hormone healing RD or check out the link in the show notes. |
| 0:31.3 | Okay, we have our birth story episode. I am sharing my second daughter, Amaya's birth story today. And I have her |
| 0:40.7 | right here. So if you're watching on YouTube, you can see the little mush strapped to my chest |
| 0:46.2 | where she pretty much lives. And I'm also going to answer a few questions. I tried to answer a lot of |
| 0:52.9 | the questions throughout that were submitted on Instagram, but I also saved some at the end. So just in case I don't fully answer them, I promise I will. And I just want to start by saying, because I had the hard time with my first birth and taking it in after and not feeling sad that I didn't |
| 1:13.5 | have this like pain free blissful birth experience. And so I just want to say this is my birth |
| 1:20.6 | experience. And I don't know, I had a beautiful home birth. It couldn't have gone better. And |
| 1:26.4 | sometimes I almost feel guilty for that. But I don't want to. So, and I know any mom listening would be like, you shouldn't feel guilty for that. I just have so much empathy for people that have an extremely hard birth and like traumatic birth. I have very close friends and family members that had that experience. It's actually |
| 1:44.9 | what pushed me towards doing a home birth. When my young, my oldest nephew was born, I was there and |
| 1:51.2 | it was like a lot. I feel like I had a little bit of birth trauma after that. And so I just, I've |
| 1:57.6 | always want those people to know that I think that our birth experience is the one |
| 2:04.7 | that we need. And that's actually Caitlin from Happy Home Birth Podcast. I shared Eliana, my oldest |
| 2:11.1 | daughter's birth story on her podcast, so after she was born. And she said to me, she's, you have the |
| 2:16.8 | birth you need, not like the one that |
| 2:18.8 | you want, typically. And I was like, I sat with that for a really long time and was like, oh my gosh, |
| 2:24.9 | that is like too true. Because, you know, it's your first, when it's your first baby, you have such a |
| 2:31.3 | big transition, like you're going from maiden to mother. Your whole life is |
| 2:35.8 | completely changing and you change yourself. So for me, Eliana's birth was extremely painful. |
| 2:43.8 | And I was like sad after. I imagine this beautiful home birth experience. And I think about it now |
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