Don’t Worry About Being THAT Pregnant Lady, It Might Save Your Baby!

Mommy Labor Nurse

Liesel Teen

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Maria Topper is a 23 year old mom of 2, blogger, and activist. She lives in Germany with her blended family. She uses her voice and social channels to talk about motherhood and its realities.

At 19 years old she found out she was pregnant. She was living in a foreign country and a seemingly normal pregnancy turned into any mom to be worst scenario when doctors refused to listen to her and she developed eclampsia.

She delivered a baby at 30 weeks via emergency C-section, and her baby girl spent 6 weeks in the NICU. Adjusting to life after the NICU wasn’t easy and she suffered with PPD and PTSD.

A few years later she wanted to extend her family and was met by the hard road that trying to conceive can be for some couples. After multiple miscarriages she was diagnosed with antiphospholipid syndrome but was able to get pregnant and delivered a healthy term baby via VBAC.

Maria urges moms-to-be to use their voice during pregnancy, to stand up for themselves if needed, and know that they their feelings and concerns are important.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast episode number 30.
0:05.0	Hey guys, we're doing a birth story today.
0:09.0	I recorded this episode with my friend Maria a long time ago about six or so months ago and I'm
0:17.2	really excited to share it because I vividly remember during her interview like getting goosebumps multiple times.
0:26.0	She just has such an amazing story to share.
0:29.6	So Maria is currently a 23 year old mom of two. She lives in Germany with her two
0:34.8	children and she has a blended family. She at 19 years old found out that she was
0:40.6	pregnant. She was living at the time in a foreign country, she's not even from Germany, and her seemingly normal pregnancy at 19 years old turned kind of into any mom's worst scenario or situation.
0:56.0	She talks about how her doctors just really refused to listen to her about her
1:01.4	symptoms. She was having a lot of symptoms of pre-aclamia and she
1:06.2	actually developed e-clampsia. So we're going to hear her talk about that. Many people
1:12.3	know what pre-aclamia is and pre-aclamia is fairly common and we
1:18.2	we under you know we've heard you've likely heard of someone or experienced pre-aclamia yourself or you've heard, you know, oh my friend had pre-aclimpsia, but e-clamsia is not very common. So we're going to hear her talk about her experience having
1:34.6	Eclamsia with her first baby. She ended up delivering that baby at 30 weeks
1:39.6	via emergency C section and her little girl
1:43.2	sent six weeks in the NICU.
1:45.1	Adjusting to this life after the NICU
1:48.0	certainly wasn't easy for her and she suffered with
1:51.4	post-parn depression and post-traumatic stress disorder as well just from this really
1:56.1	traumatic experience. After a few years she did want to extend her family and she was met by the
2:02.2	hard road that trying to conceive can be for some
2:05.6	couple she had multiple miscarriages she was diagnosed with something called
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