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[Birth Stories] Unassisted Home Birth After VBAC

Birthful

Adriana Lozada

Education, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.7706 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Today’s birth story, is with Nichole Joy, whose experiences have taken her from a Cesarean birth, to a VBAC, to an unexpected and unassisted home birth. She has gone from being afraid of giving birth and letting others guide her decision making, to trusting the process and being able to tell an EMT to “get your hand off of my vagina” as her baby’s body was about to emerge. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the birthful podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada and today's birth stories with Nicole Joy,

0:17.8

whose experiences have taken her from a cesarean birth to a V-back to an unexpected

0:22.5

and unassisted homebirth. She has gone from being afraid of giving birth and letting others

0:27.0

guide her decision-making to trusting the process and being able to tell an EMT to get your

0:32.5

hands off my vagina as her baby's body was about to merge. Stay tuned.

0:40.8

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0:50.8

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0:57.1

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1:01.7

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1:06.3

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1:09.4

The Birthful podcast, talking to maternity pros and new parents to inform your intuition.

1:19.7

Hello, mighty parents and parents to be.

1:22.4

Thanks again for all the love you give the show.

1:24.7

And if you like what you hear, then make sure you subscribe so you

1:27.5

don't miss a thing. To best support this podcast, support its sponsors, which in today's case are

1:32.4

Vista Print and Green Chef. And if you're listening to the show on the day that I posted it, then

1:38.6

tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the U.S. And if that is where you live, I hope you have a very,

1:43.8

very happy day surrounded by

1:45.2

loved ones with lots of oxytocin and great food. And frankly, I wish that to all of you,

1:52.0

wherever you're listening from, even if it's not Thanksgiving. I am so very grateful to be one of

1:58.6

your go-to resources during this transformative time in your life.

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