AP 073: E's Birth Story || with Laura Dugovic

About Progress

Cloud10

Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

As a follow-up to my interview with childbirth educator Laura Dugovic, here is the birth story of my sweet baby born on February 5th. (I share his name briefly on the interview, but won't be typing it up here as I guard my kids' names online.) You'll hear about what led up to the birth, what I did to help with the pain without using an epidural, and how Laura's resources and positive affirmations completely transformed this birth. Instead of feeling either traumatized or like a caged animal as I have in the past, I felt strong and centered. If you've been following along with me on Instagram, then you know that E had emergency surgery at 9 days old, just a few days after recording this episode. His intestines were twisted, which is life threatening as the bowels can quickly die. We returned home much sooner than we planned after six days total at the hospital, five of which were in the PICU. Thank you SO much for your many messages during this time, and most especially your prayers. We felt them and know that his surgery and outcome were miraculous. Show Notes: Laura's Website, Resources for positive affirmations, and Instagram Last week's episode on fighting terminal illness with Mandie Sherman Monica's Facebook and Instagram Monat Natural, Anti-Aging Hair Care: Contact Monica to learn more, OR research via her Monat Instagram and website Related: Monica's views on Sponsorship and WHY she's partnering with Monat Fabletics! Get 2 leggings for $24 when you become a VIP member (they're the besssssst!) (Affiliate link) Free Audiobook through Audible! (Affiliate link) Contact Monica More Podcasts from About Progress Song Credit: "Sweet Promise" and "Tonight" by Nicolai Heidlas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.6	Download June's Journey Now on your Android or iOS device or play on PC through Facebook games. Welcome to About Progress, a podcast devoted to ordinary people who are striving to improve themselves, overcome obstacles, and make something special of their lives, all my maintaining a healthy balance.
0:50.8	In short, people who know life is about progress, not perfection.
0:55.0	Hello everyone, thank you so much for listening today.
1:01.0	This is late, and it's another good reason thank you so much for
1:04.8	your patience. If you follow me on Instagram at about progress you might have seen
1:09.7	that our newborn had to have emergency surgery last week on Thursday.
1:15.0	His intestines were twisted and there's a whole long story behind how we knew that was the case,
1:22.0	how we knew when to go in and to ask for certain tests and all that.
1:25.0	I've put those in my highlights of my Instagram account if that helps if you're just curious and wondering how he's doing how the recovery went and we spent five days in the pick you after and he really did make a
1:37.8	Miraculous recovery and I don't say that lightly we definitely should have been in they you for much longer so we're just so grateful to be back home and now I'm getting emotional.
1:48.0	So we're really really grateful to have him home and that he is alive and well and especially grateful to live now when
1:56.1	we could do something about it.
1:58.7	So because of all that happened, I didn't air this episode as originally planned last Friday and I also
2:06.4	didn't record the episode I had planned for this Wednesday which was
2:10.0	supposed to be just me talking about something I've been really thinking about lately.
2:14.9	So instead I'm airing it today.
2:17.2	I figure better late than never and this is still also related to our son Elliot.
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