EP207: Birth Stories with Shannon Perkins
The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy
Elizabeth Presta
4.2 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week we are having on listener, Shannon Perkins. She shares her two birth stories with us. They did not go quite as planned but Shannon had empowering experiences.
She is a mom of two (Madelyn - 3 and Benjamin - 1), senior communications manager for a medical software company, and freelance writer. She resides in a coastal town in southeastern Massachusetts with her husband and children. When she's not mom'ing or writing, you can find her exercising, organizing, reading, or indulging in her favorite guilty pleasure — reality TV.
Connect with Shannon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonplasski
Shannon on Motherly: https://www.mother.ly/author/shannon-perkins
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Maraculous Mama's podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:09.3 | Elizabeth Joy. And we believe in empowering women through storytelling and |
| 0:14.0 | education. And I'm so glad that you are here. I'm excited for today's episode. |
| 0:18.1 | We're gonna do some birth stories. Shannon Perkins is coming on and she's gonna |
| 0:23.1 | share two of her stories. She written in before and was like, I have two wild |
| 0:28.1 | stories. And I'm like, let's hear them. One thing I've been doing to prepare |
| 0:34.4 | for this birth is listening to different stories. And sometimes I'll listen to |
| 0:39.9 | the birth hour or different podcasts. The informed pregnancy I love. Dr. Berlin |
| 0:47.0 | has people come on and share birth stories on there. So I've just spent it like |
| 0:51.5 | absorbing good birth stories. I'll scroll to the ones that like seem like |
| 0:59.5 | they'll be a good fit for what I'm going for. And listen in, you know. So I'm |
| 1:07.6 | excited to for you guys to hear Shannon's stories today. And if you're |
| 1:13.4 | listening right now, that means that I am 40 weeks this week. So if I have |
| 1:19.4 | not had the baby yet, I'm getting pretty antsy to have the baby. So I do have |
| 1:26.2 | some episodes recorded in advance. Just for those first few weeks after the |
| 1:30.4 | baby's born to take off and not really worry about recording content. And then |
| 1:35.4 | I know Vito and I will share the birth story with you guys and and then |
| 1:39.9 | continue on with some awesome guests. So I'm really excited for for what is in |
| 1:45.6 | store. I feel my body getting more and more ready. I lost my mucus plug two |
| 1:50.6 | weeks ago now and then having continuous brags and hicks for like a week. And |
| 1:58.2 | today they seem to like they got a little more intense, but no real big increase |
| 2:03.8 | in anything. So it's like, come on. Are you? What are you doing? Are we going in |
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