Ep 251: A Deeper Understanding of the Transformative Power of Birth with Karey Hoffmann

Happy Homebirth

Katelyn Fusco

Parenting, Sexuality, Kids & Family, Kids & Family:parenting, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

How can we lean into the primal nature of birth and experience it as the full right of passage that it was designed to be? Today we're speaking with Karey, a stay-at-home, soon to be homeschooling mom of three. In this episode, we'll uncover the work that Karey did, particularly between her second and third birth, that led to a deeper understanding of the transformative power that birth holds for those who seek. Episode Roundup We talk about communication being extremely important, and Karey's story truly highlighted this. She and her husband Matthew truly spent time before their third birth working on communicating with one another about their hopes and desires of the event. This so clearly paid off in their experience together, and this birth was an extremely magnetizing event- pulling them even closer together. I love how Karey brought up this concept of the sanitization and sterilization of birth. You know, in the medical world, it seems as though the goal is to totally subdue the experience of birth. To pretend that #1, nothing can go wrong when in the hospital (which, of course we know isn't realtiy) but also to #2 prevent mothers from feeling...from EXPRESSING. Birth is meant to be expressive for goodness sake. But because of the way society has repressed this from mothers for so long, it often times takes deep exploration before birth to feel comfortable with this in the moment. And finally, there is so much power in our perspective. After her extremely in tense car birth at 70 miles per hour, Karey was left feeling uncertain about her experience. Between working with The Birth Story Doula and unpacking her feelings even further inside of the HBC, Karey is now able to look back on those events with a totally different perspective. And she was able to enter her third birth with an open mind and the feeling that this birth was going to be beautiful- and it sure was! Tag @thebirthstorydoula This Week's Sponsors:Araza Beauty: Code HOMEBIRTH for 15% off Informed Pregnancy+ Join The Homebirth Collective Join Happy Homebirth Academy Code PODCAST for 10% off

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0:00.0	For some reason, I just had it in my head. I was like, well, I don't deserve, like, easy pregnancies.
0:04.5	I don't deserve this homebirth. Like, this is too good to be true. And I remember, like,
0:09.0	kind of that coming up in one of my appointments with my midwife. And she just, like,
0:13.0	helped me through that and just helped me get out of my head and, you know, tried to help me,
0:18.9	you know, envision the birth that I wanted.
0:23.3	Welcome to the Happy Home Birth Podcast, your source for positive natural childbirth
0:28.5	stories and your community of support, education, and encouragement in all things homebirth
0:33.9	and motherhood. How can we lean into the primal nature of birth and
0:43.5	and experience it as the full rite of passage that it was designed to be?
0:48.8	Hey there, happy homebirthers, and welcome to this week's episode of the Happy Homebirth
0:53.4	podcast.
0:55.0	I'm your host, Caitlin Fusco, and today we're speaking with Carrie, a stay-at-home, soon-to-be
1:00.4	homeschooling, mom of three.
1:03.3	In this episode, we'll uncover the work that Carrie did, particularly between her second
1:07.9	and third birth, that led to a deeper understanding of the transformative power that birth holds for those who seek it.
1:16.2	Okay, let's jump in.
1:17.8	Please remember that the opinions of my guest may not necessarily reflect my own and vice versa.
1:23.5	And this show is not medical advice.
1:25.6	It's an educational tool.
1:26.8	So continue to take empowered
1:28.8	responsibility for your help and your family. Carrie, thank you so much for coming on the Happy
1:34.2	Home Birth Podcast. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited. Oh, I'm so excited to all of the
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