Birth After Trauma: How Samantha & Matt Found Healing and Strength

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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From trauma to triumph — Samantha and Matt’s birth story is a powerful reminder that healing is possible. After a terrifying first birth that left them both shaken, they came into baby #2’s birth with education, preparation, and a whole lot of heart. With gestational diabetes, high-risk care, and past trauma stacked against her, Samantha shares how she found her strength, leaned on her partner, and birthed her baby in just over 6 hours, naturally, confidently, and joyfully. This episode is a ...

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0:00.0	Part of the reason why I'm happy to share my story is because going through that birth trauma,
0:04.2	it really leaves a mark. And sometimes it's hard to move past that and think that you're
0:09.4	not going to end up with the same experience and just knowing that it's possible. And if you just
0:15.0	put your heart and your soul into it and have faith in yourself and whatever faith, you know,
0:20.2	you believe in that it can be done and whatever faith you know you believe in
0:21.0	that it can be done and you know you are strong enough to do it getting pregnant and giving birth are
0:33.5	two of the most exciting things you can ever hope to experience in this life.
0:38.2	The moment you think you could be pregnant, you're frantically searching for all the best
0:41.9	information, which is why you're here today. I'm Stephanie King and with my many years of experience
0:47.5	as a professional childbirth educator, doula, and lover of all things, pregnancy, birth, and
0:52.8	postpartum, I'm here to make preparing for your
0:55.5	birth enjoyable, empowering, and totally easy. Each week, I'll cover different topics, interview
1:01.8	professionals, and get into the nitty gritty birth stories from mamas just like you. And when you're
1:07.6	ready for more, you can join me in the My Essential Birth course at MyEessentialbirth.com,
1:12.5	where I take you step by step through exactly how to prepare your mind, body, spirit, and partner for a birth you love.
1:20.1	So let's get started.
1:27.3	A reviewer of the week is Sadie. Philip, and she says, birth stories are the best. I am 33 weeks
1:33.9	pregnant with my first, and I've always wanted to have an unmedicated birth, but I didn't know all that
1:38.8	much. Now, after lots of birth classes and podcasts like this, I have been able to clear all my fear about birth,
1:45.0	and I feel excited for my birth. Crazy to think I feel excited for something so many people
1:49.8	are scared of. I recommend your podcast to everyone. Thank you so much, Sadie. And we have another
1:55.3	birth story here with us today. These are definitely the favorites. So I love that we get to do this.
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