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Mommy Labor Nurse

Baby Ezra’s Incredible Liver Transplant Story

Mommy Labor Nurse

Liesel Teen

Parenting, Kids & Family

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast, I had the opportunity to talk to a fellow mom, Serena, about her baby's incredible liver transplant story!

It’s a little different than some of our other birth stories, but I was so thrilled to have her come on and share her inspiring and miraculous story, and raise awareness about the power and importance of organ donation.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Mommy Labour Nurse Podcast episode number 65.

0:04.6

Hey guys, happy Monday, so I have a very special cool episode to share with you guys this week.

0:11.1

So this week, I had Serena come on the podcast and Serena is a stay at home mom of two boys.

0:17.4

And after her son received a liver transplant at the age of five months old,

0:22.4

Serena has been an active advocate for organ donation.

0:26.1

She loves to share his story as a way to bring awareness to organ donation and to honor his selfless donor in their family.

0:33.2

So after battling years of infertility due to PCOS, Serena and her husband welcomed their son Ezra into the world.

0:41.0

Her birth was all natural and everything that she wanted it to be,

0:44.4

but the bliss soon wore off as they started to notice that he started to get these weird red bumps all over his body.

0:51.3

Their doctors warned that there could be some on his internal organs.

0:56.0

So one day after many, many ultrasounds, they found a bunch on his liver, which was super scary, obviously.

1:03.1

And this was just the start of Ezra's whole story into getting his labor transplant.

1:08.1

So without further ado, let's get into this week's episode all about Ezra.

1:13.2

You're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast, where we firmly believe in the power of education when it comes to giving birth.

1:25.5

Tune in each week as we dive into pregnancy related topics, expert interviews, and a variety of birth stories.

1:31.8

As a reminder, anything you hear on this podcast is not medical advice.

1:35.6

Please see MommyLaborNers.com slash disclaimer for more details.

1:40.0

And now here's your host, educator, registered nurse, and fellow mom, Liesel team.

1:49.2

Hi, Serena. Welcome to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast. Thank you so much for being here today.

1:53.9

Hi, thanks for having me.

1:55.7

Yeah, yeah. I know we chatted a little bit on Instagram, but can you start by telling our listeners a little bit about yourself and your family, where you're from, what you like to do on weekends, all that good.

2:06.7

Sure.

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