[Birth Stories] An Empowered Cesarean After a Traumatic Cesarean
Birthful
Adriana Lozada
4.7 • 706 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Melissa Divaris Thompson tells me about her two very different cesarean birth experiences. Melissa describes her first experience as traumatic. By contrast, she felt really empowered during her second birth. So what makes them so very different?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada and we're jump starting our Friday |
| 0:16.8 | Breathful Stories talking with Melissa DeVarres Thompson about her two very different |
| 0:21.8 | cesarean birth experiences. Melissa describes her first experience as traumatic. By contrast, she felt |
| 0:28.7 | really empowered during her second birth. So what makes these two experiences so very different? |
| 0:34.4 | Stay tuned to find out. |
| 0:42.4 | This episode of Birthful is brought to you by Megan Offling, a fabulous birth dula and child birth educator in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who is all about offering women the information |
| 0:46.4 | and support they need to make their own empowered birth choices. Learn more at |
| 0:51.0 | womanof valorbirth.com. |
| 0:58.3 | This episode of Birthful is also brought to you by Expectful, |
| 1:02.9 | an evidence-based guided meditation app created specifically for those trying to conceive, |
| 1:04.1 | pregnant, or new moms. |
| 1:08.9 | Reduce your stress, reduce your complications, and improve your connection to your baby and partner. |
| 1:14.3 | Learn more and sign up for a free two-week trial at expectful.com slash birthful. |
| 1:20.2 | The Birthful podcast Stories, talking to new parents to inform your intuition. |
| 1:25.5 | Hello, mighty parents and parents-to-be. |
| 1:27.4 | Thanks again for all the love you give the show. I really |
| 1:28.2 | enjoy getting all your requests and comments as well as reading your reviews. But now we're going to |
| 1:33.7 | be having a story every Friday. So if you want to share your story, let me know. Come on the show and |
| 1:41.4 | tell it to everybody. Now, I do have quite a bit of requests from people waiting |
| 1:45.2 | to share their birth stories so i am currently looking for more postpartum or breastfeeding or |
| 1:51.4 | infant feeding or uh partner stories all any other stories related to those first few weeks |
| 1:59.8 | that are not specifically birth. |
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