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The Longest Shortest Time

Rewriting Your Birth Story

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2014

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Hillary attempts to rewrite her traumatic birth story, four years after the fact. Part 1 of a three-part series on natural birth. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.0

I have obsessed over my childbirth a lot, like, to an unhealthy degree.

0:33.7

My daughter was born four years ago, and even now, I still find myself daydreaming sometimes,

0:40.0

you know, playing the movie of what happened over and over in my mind, and I get stuck

0:46.0

at certain points.

0:47.1

I just fixate over whether I could have made a different choice, you know, right there

0:52.6

or there, and things would have gone differently, been less traumatic.

0:57.9

We'll get to the choices in a minute, but first, I just want to fill you in on what happened

1:03.0

and what I wish had happened.

1:05.5

So, if you've been listening to the show for a while, you'll know that I had an apesia

1:10.0

out of me.

1:11.0

You know, that's where they cut a part of your vaginal tissue called your perineum,

1:15.1

and I've talked about that here before.

1:17.7

The thing I haven't really gone into is I've been wondering all of these years, should

1:22.8

I actually have gotten a more aggressive intervention?

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