Recovering from a Traumatic Birth: Laura’s Story | Ep. 34
Risen Motherhood
Risen Motherhood
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Nearly 35 percent of women experience a traumatic birth and most women take at least 12 months to acknowledge or realize the true affects of what happened to them. In today's episode, Laura is sharing her story of a traumatic birth with her firstborn. Sharing her feelings of inadequacy, anger, shame, blame and comparison, Laura talks through what happened and how she healed from a traumatic birth, finding hope in the gospel. Whether you experienced a traumatic birth in the past, or just feel discouraged that your birth that didn't live up to your expectations, today's show will help you process and recover, turning a disappointing birth story into one filled with meaning and hope.
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel |
| 0:09.8 | like the worst mom on the planet. Which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel |
| 0:14.9 | to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So mama, whether |
| 0:20.9 | you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true, |
| 0:25.9 | encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:36.1 | Well, welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I'm Emily Jensen here with my sister |
| 0:41.2 | in law, Laura Whiffler. Good morning or actually, who knows when you're listening to this? It's |
| 0:46.0 | morning here. It is early morning here. I know we've mentioned this before, but we always have to |
| 0:52.4 | record super early so that before the babies wake up in a little adorable kiddos walk in. |
| 0:59.5 | Well, today we are doing something different than we've done before. We are doing kind of an |
| 1:05.5 | interview style show today and we'll be talking about traumatic birth. And Laura has actually experienced |
| 1:13.6 | a traumatic birth. And I know we maybe mentioned on one of our birth plan episodes a while back that |
| 1:20.4 | we wanted to address this topic and that's what we're doing today. So yeah, for those of you who |
| 1:28.0 | have been through, but there may be you're not even ready to classify it as traumatic and maybe you |
| 1:33.1 | already have, but we hope that this is a blessing to you. Yeah, it's kind of weird to be, I don't know |
| 1:39.7 | if you said this explicitly, Emily, but Emily is interviewing me for the traumatic thing today. |
| 1:45.2 | Yeah, feel a little bit nervous to kind of like be on the hot seat. I mean, it's not really any |
| 1:50.4 | different than normal, but it feels like, you know, I got to I got to deliver today. Yes, well, |
| 1:55.6 | we hope that this delivery will not be stressful for you. So today we want to talk about this. So |
| 2:04.0 | Laura, before we get started, I think there's probably a lot of women out there who are like, |
| 2:09.2 | what is traumatic birth? Does it mean that you had a life-threatening experience when you were |
| 2:15.6 | delivering? Does it mean that you had an emergency C section? What does traumatic birth mean? |
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