Ep145: Crystal’s Birth Story - Laughing Through the Pain

Birth With Power

Dr. Nicole C. Rankins

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Crystal played roller derby for nine years and even that couldn’t prepare her for her first pregnancy. She not only labored for 30+ hours, had to transfer from the birthing center to a hospital, was diagnosed with gestational hypertension, and her baby had to stay in the NICU, but she was also stung by a swarm of yellow jackets at thirty-eight weeks! Despite all this, she’s able to look back on the whole experience and laugh. Though some people might never want to get pregnant again after all that, Crystal decided to try for baby number two and it turned out to be a redemptive and healing experience. After laboring for only 2.5 hours, she had the unmedicated birth she’d always hoped for and got to enjoy the “golden hour” which she did not get the first time around.

Crystal’s birth story teaches us an important lesson: you must be prepared for the possibility that things may not go as planned. Birth is an unpredictable process that cannot be controlled. It’s beautiful to have birth wishes and you don’t want to go into the birth experience without knowing what you want, but it’s important to entertain all possibilities and be prepared.

In this Episode, You’ll Learn About:

-How different Crystal’s two births really were

-What she wanted from her first birth and what she got

-How truly painful birth can be

-Why it’s important to remember that you can change your mind about your birth wishes

-How her birth experiences differed in a birthing center versus a hospital

-What is HIE and how can it be treated with cooling therapy or “therapeutic hypothermia”

-Why it’s worth the time and energy to process the trauma that can occur from birth

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, it's another great birth story episode.
0:09.6	Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth Podcast.
0:14.1	I'm Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankin's, a board certified OBGYN who's been in practice for nearly 15 years.
0:20.7	I've had the privilege of helping over 1,000 babies into this world,
0:25.0	and I'm here to help you be calm, confident, and empowered to have a beautiful pregnancy
0:31.3	in birth.
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1:17.0	Hello, hello. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. This is episode number 145. Thank you for
1:24.5	spending some of your time with me today. On today's episode of the podcast, we have
1:29.7	Crystal. Crystal and her husband, Gabriel, have been together for 18 years after playing
1:36.6	roller derby for nine years. I think that's so cool that she played roller derby. Well, after playing
1:42.2	roller derby for nine years, Crystal retired from the
1:44.9	sport and started a family. And Crystal is going to share her birth story today, actually both of her
1:51.6	birth stories, because you have to understand both in order to see the differences about what can
1:56.1	happen with birth. So Crystal and Gabriel's first birth did not go anything like expected. She had 30 hours of
2:05.2	labor, actually over 30 hours of labor. She ended up being transferred to a hospital from a birth
2:11.3	center. She got an epidural when she really wanted an unmedicated birth, and she had an extended hospital stay due to
2:19.1	gestational hypertension and a NICU stay for their baby girl. Her baby girl's doing well now,
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