Our Birth Stories (And Your Questions About Them!): Episode 329

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Every pregnancy, baby, and birth is unique–and between us we’ve had eight of them! From planned c-sections to hospital births that didn’t go as planned, birthing centers, home births, and water births: we haven’t experienced everything, but we’ve been through a lot! Coming off of Labor Day (wink wink), Meagan and Sarah are looking back on the births of our eight babies in Episode 329. We answer your questions about how we prepared, some funny and not-so-fun moments, and what we wish we had known about birth. Join us!

We know birth stories can be hard to hear. If you’re struggling with infertility you might find encouragement in this episode; if you’ve experienced a pregnancy loss, we recommend this episode; if you’re going through a medically difficult pregnancy or difficult diagnosis, try this one or this one; if you’re experiencing infant loss or a tough NICU stay, this episode may help you feel less alone.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the Mom Hour.
0:23.0	Hey everyone and welcome to episode 329 of the Mom Hour. I am Sarah Powers here
0:28.1	with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey Sarah. Well, we're really excited today. We're
0:33.1	gonna talk about our birth stories kind of our birth stories, but not just
0:37.6	telling them one after the other because we decided that might take like four
0:41.9	episodes worth of content. Can I just be really honest to like four of my
0:47.3	births were so similar that this far out of the, you know, away from them
0:51.7	now, they're starting to kind of blur together a little bit. So I'm not I'm
0:55.6	not even sure how interesting it would be for me to tell all four or all five
0:59.4	of the stories. There's just not enough variety. And I'm not even sure which
1:02.7	baby was which at some points. I'll do my best. They all blur together. So what
1:07.2	we did actually was we got some amazing questions from you all in our
1:11.5	Facebook community that are really specific and some of them are kind of
1:14.4	short questions that will have like a one word answer to and others will
1:18.5	lead to some deeper discussions. But this way we get to talk about our
1:21.8	combined eight births, eight birth experiences. But through the lens of the
1:26.2	questions that you all had for us, which I think is going to be really fun. And
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