Katie's Twin Birth Story
Mommy Labor Nurse
Liesel Teen
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, I’m talking to Katie who shares her powerful twin birth story with a surprise gender reveal in the end!
She struggled to find relatable experiences during her own pregnancy, so she decided to share her birth story with us today! Katie talks about her surprising discovery that she was carrying identical twins, the medical complications she faced and a long labor that ended in a vaginal twin delivery.
Katie even shares postpartum challenges and hopes her story helps other twin moms feel less alone. Tune in for this intimate look into one mother's twin birth journey.
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| 0:00.0 | and they're doing the ultrasound and I was so focused on just making sure that the baby was okay |
| 0:07.6 | due to the spotting like and I think the doctor knew like I was just like it's okay the baby the baby's okay, like you hear the heartbeat. |
| 0:14.0 | And so we spend the time like listening to the heartbeat, the whole thing, like of the baby. |
| 0:19.9 | And then she's like, okay, now there's another baby. You're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcasts where you'll gain the tools, knowledge, and |
| 0:34.8 | confidence you need to erase the unknowns, feel in control, and have an even better birth |
| 0:40.3 | and no matter how you deliver. My name is Liesel Teen, mom of two, practicing labor and |
| 0:46.0 | delivery nurse, and your host. From over eight years and counting of working at |
| 0:51.2 | the bedside, I know that knowledge is the key to an even better birth. |
| 0:56.3 | So tune in each week to learn about all things pregnancy, birth, and postpartum from me, a labor and delivery nurse that's seen it all. |
| 1:05.0 | And now let's get into this week's episode. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome back to the mommy labor nurse podcast. This week I have a birth story for you guys and it's not just any birth story. |
| 1:18.8 | It is a twin birth story. I've a twin birth story on the podcast in quite a while so when Katie reached out to us I was like oh yeah let's do a twin birth story I haven't heard one of those in a while I haven't taken |
| 1:33.7 | care of a patient who's had twins in a while so I was really feeling the twins I was really |
| 1:38.9 | feeling the twins this week Katie did such an amazing job telling her story and really wanted to come on here because |
| 1:47.6 | one thing she said at the end of her episode really stuck with me and that was that when she was pregnant with her |
| 1:54.9 | twins she struggled finding twin birth stories and she just really |
| 2:00.3 | really wanted to find as many people as she could to talk to you about their |
| 2:06.8 | experience you know with twins and she just really struggled too so she |
| 2:10.4 | wanted to come on here and just tell her story for any other twin moms out there because she just really saw the value and connecting with moms who are other twin moms. |
| 2:20.7 | You can hear about other people's experiences and really you |
| 2:24.0 | know kind of feel like you have a grasp on that because it really is a much |
| 2:27.3 | different experience having two babies come out of you whether it's your |
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