Midwife has 3 homebirths - publicly funded and private homebirth & homebirth away from home || Sahara's birth of Van (2020), Chet (2022) & Wren (2024) at home (Victoria)

Birthing at Home: A Podcast

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In episode 59, Sahara a midwife and IBCLC shares her 3 homebirth stories.
Sahara shares her journey to finding homebirth and choosing to become a midwife. We then hear about her experience in a publicly funded homebirth program during the start of COVID 19 in Melbourne and the challenges she faced — she then shares her two home births under the care of private midwives. We go on some interesting tangents in this episode and we also talk about loss and also the trauma associated with a pyloric stenosis surgery that her 3rd baby had to undergo in the early weeks of her life outside the womb.
Resources:

• Gestational Diabetes
  • https://www.rachelreed.website/blog/gestational-diabetes-beyond-the-label
  • https://podcasts.apple.com/ua/podcast/gestational-diabetes-the-pregnancy-perspective/id1523178579?i=1000527077230
• Eating dates for inducing labour https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-023-06196-y
• Acupuncture or acupressure for induction of labour https://www.cochrane.org/CD002962/PREG_acupuncture-or-acupressure-induction-labour
• Pyloric stenosis
• The 'Timing Method' to increase chance of a particular sex https://www.naturalcycles.com/cyclematters/how-to-conceive-a-boy-or-a-girl

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1. Midwife has 3 homebirths - publicly funded and private homebirth & homebirth away from home || Sahara's birth of Van (2020), Chet (2022) & Wren (2024) at home (Victoria) (00:00:00)

2. Experiences with Home Birth Programs (00:02:56)

3. Navigating Doubts and Support in Home Birth (00:09:11)

4. The Role of Midwives and Continuity of Care (00:11:55)

5. The Importance of Positive Birth Narratives (00:14:46)

6. Coping with Loss and Moving Forward (00:30:00)

7. Navigating Motherhood: From One to Two (00:54:00)

8. The Experience of Third Pregnancies (01:05:00)

9. Reflections on Home Birth and Societal Perceptions (01:20:00)