Ep. 95 My Sister’s Birth Story
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I am joined by my sister Gabrielle Hames to discuss the profoundly spiritual experience of her recent birth where I was her doula.
In this episode, we dive into the following topics…
- Gabrielle's birth story from contractions to postpartum recovery
- The contrasts between midwifery care and OB/GYN care
- Navigating family relationships during the birthing process
- Coping with birth complications as a mother and doula
- Eating your placenta post-birth and the associated health benefits
- Connecting with your newborn and dealing with the anxiety when you don’t
- How you can help support a new mother post-birth
Mentioned in this week's episode...
- Birth, Babies and Circumcision with Robyn Pool from PUSH Midwifery
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:07.5 | Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality, |
| 0:11.6 | where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself. |
| 0:16.1 | Whether you're on the road to recovery, |
| 0:18.2 | seeking self-care techniques for surviving the capitalist machine, |
| 0:21.8 | or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness, |
| 0:26.2 | we're serving up the ultimate truth. |
| 0:28.8 | Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does. |
| 0:33.0 | So are you ready to recover from reality? |
| 0:39.7 | I hope that other women can relate to this and to know that like right now |
| 0:44.5 | I'm taking it one step at a time and I'm not getting down on myself and I'm not being hard |
| 0:49.7 | on myself, but in the beginning I was, I was crying, I was so mad at myself, I just felt like |
| 0:57.3 | I was not a good mom because I couldn't connect with him and you know what's going to happen |
| 1:03.3 | and am I ever going to be able to connect with him, I'm having all of these feelings. |
| 1:08.4 | And it's just, it's really hard. It was really freaking hard. |
| 1:14.4 | And then I had extreme amounts of hormones, flushing through my body, |
| 1:21.6 | and I'm having all of these thoughts, even at one point it wasn't suicidal, but it was just like |
| 1:30.0 | like I know my reasoning to continue, but like I don't feel like I want to. |
| 1:35.2 | And it was just one night of like chaotic emotions like that. |
| 1:40.4 | And I just remember like, oh it's crying to my husband. |
| 1:45.7 | And just being like I don't want my baby to feel this, I don't want to feel this myself. |
| 1:50.7 | And it was really tough. |
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