S04:10 After 48 hours of labor. Emergency C-Section. What they don't tell you.
MIDWEEK RISE UP
Erika Kirk
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It's taken me three years to be able to share this story with you. Life is full. But God kept pressing on my heart that it's time to share the story.
Pregnancy. Delivery. Postpartum. They're different for everyone. And in that 4th trimester, it isn’t about “bouncing back”. It’s about becoming.
In this episode, I open up about what I did differently after my second child, and how my approach to postpartum shifted when I went from being a mom of one to a mom of two. I’ve kept my pregnancies and postpartum seasons intentionally private, but today I’m sharing pieces of my journey, not to prescribe, but to remind you: you don’t owe your story to anyone.
The only voices that matter are yours, your baby’s, and God’s.
I’ll walk you through:
- Why the first three months are sacred for both you and your newborn
- How I prepared differently for Charlie this time around
- Why getting bloodwork after birth was a game-changer for my healing
- The role of movement, nourishment, and scar care in postpartum recovery
- My thoughts on C-section healing, CFT therapy, and lactation support
- The importance of aligning with the right medical team
- And why keeping space for your own passions (like Proclaim, for me) is not selfish — it’s stewardship
This is not a “how-to” list. It’s a very real, raw, unedited conversation about grace, healing, and perspective. About slowing down, protecting your peace, and remembering that when your baby was born, a new version of you was born too.
Whether you’re preparing for motherhood, in the thick of postpartum, or reflecting years later, I hope this episode gives you encouragement, permission to slow down, and the reminder that you are not alone.
There is no rush. There is no race. There is only grace.
Links for things I talk about:
Coach Sal: www.Fortitudegymhq.com
Dr. Tiffany Zook: http://holistichomepediatrics.com
Cocoon to Bloom: https://cocoontobloom.com/intake-forms
Bellibind: https://www.bellibind.com
We hope that you enjoy this episode.
God bless you and Go Rise Up!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to midweek rise up. I am so excited about this episode. It has been |
| 0:06.5 | three years in the making, if you will, because it's something so personal and so private |
| 0:13.0 | that Charlie and I usually don't really talk about, and that's my pregnancies and also |
| 0:18.4 | postpartum. And it's just been weighing on my heart that |
| 0:21.8 | now's the time. Now is the time to share because I did not have a normal pregnancy. I did not |
| 0:27.0 | have a normal postpartum. And I think a lot of people get so caught up in if you had a at home |
| 0:33.2 | birth, if you had a natural birth, if you had, you know, all these different genres of birth, if you will. |
| 0:39.9 | And not many people actually talked about the postpartum side of after birth. |
| 0:45.6 | Like once you get your beautiful baby and everyone's like, okay, good luck. |
| 0:49.6 | No one really talks about that as much. |
| 0:52.0 | And then also, I really realize that there's not many people |
| 0:55.5 | who share what happens if, you know, God forbid, you do have to have an emergency C-section like myself. |
| 1:02.6 | And, you know, you've had multiple C-sections now instead of doing a V-back. And so I just wanted |
| 1:08.3 | to share with you what was on my heart. I wanted to share with you our journey |
| 1:12.2 | in hopes that maybe it would encourage you or someone that you love or someone that you know who's |
| 1:16.9 | currently pregnant or going through postpartum and you just want them to feel seen and to know that |
| 1:23.4 | there are multiple different options and journeys when it comes to birth and pregnancy. |
| 1:30.0 | So again, Charlie and I, we usually intentionally keep everything very private, especially my |
| 1:36.2 | postpartum because I lock myself away intentionally for three months. |
| 1:40.5 | I am full baby mode. |
| 1:42.7 | And remember that you're not, I just don't want you to feel that you're |
| 1:45.5 | required to share about your journey. You don't owe it to anyone. You're a mother now. And the only |
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