Giving Birth Overseas: One Mom's Birth Story Navigating an International Healthcare System
Mommy Labor Nurse
Liesel Teen
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode of The Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast, I am joined by a fellow mom with an extraordinary birth story that entails being pregnant and giving birth in a foreign country.
This birth story is told by Katie, whose husband was stationed at an American army base in Germany.
With the war in Afghanistan coming to an end and a flood of refugees needing medical attention, Katie wasn’t able to receive care at the base but found herself giving birth in a German hospital instead.
Today, she will share with us how she experienced the differences in healthcare systems and how a C-section unexpectedly became part of this international birth story.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I was not able to be seen on base. |
| 0:03.8 | In the OBGYN clinic, the war in Afghanistan |
| 0:07.4 | had just ended and there were tens of thousands |
| 0:10.6 | of refugees at the base where we're stationed. |
| 0:14.0 | So they were outsourcing any new patient |
| 0:17.7 | to the German economy. |
| 0:26.6 | You're listening to the Mommy Leverner's podcast |
| 0:29.1 | where you'll gain the tools, knowledge, and confidence |
| 0:32.1 | you need to erase the unknowns, feel in control, |
| 0:35.4 | and have an even better birth, |
| 0:37.0 | no matter how you deliver. |
| 0:39.0 | My name is Liesultine, mom of two, |
| 0:41.6 | practicing labor and deliver nurse, and your host. |
| 0:45.1 | From over eight years and counting |
| 0:47.1 | of working at the bedside, |
| 0:48.8 | I know that knowledge is the key to an even better birth. |
| 0:53.2 | So tune in each week to learn about all things |
| 0:55.7 | pregnancy, birth, and postpartum from me, |
| 0:59.1 | a labor and deliver nurse that's seen it all. |
| 1:01.5 | And now let's get into this week's episode. |
| 1:06.6 | This week on the Mommy Leverner's podcast, |
| 1:08.5 | I am joined by fellow mom Katie |
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