Claim OwnershipThe Expat Birth Podcast
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A podcast devoted to sharing stories and resources to empower families as they navigate pregnancy/birth/postpartum abroad.
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October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. In honor of this month, we are launching an important new resource to better support families in our community navigating the grief of loss while serving cross-culturally. LaDonna joins us to share about the Perinatal Loss Debrief Packet and The Virtual Village CARE Facebook group.
On October 15th we will be participating in the International Wave of Light to honor each child who is no longer here with us. We will create a virtual candle in honor of your child and post it. We ask that all name submissions be sent by October 13th to ensure time to create the posts.
Link to the debrief page:
https://chandler-gilow-s-school.teachable.com/p/perinatal-loss-resources
Link to the Virtual Village Care:
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/AjJn6kKSwJ8irwaU/?mibextid=K35XfP
Link to A Beautiful Remembrance Instagram Page:
https://www.instagram.com/abeautifulremembrance?igsh=dW1iMGtwdGVqeDhk
In this episode, we have the joy of experiencing a shortened version of a Birth Story Listening Session with Christine Rollings. Birth Story listening is not a well-known service, however, I think it is such a gift to our community as we process all the layers of birth abroad. Since this is a new service, we thought it would be helpful to do an episode to answer some common questions and provide a demonstration. You can compare this episode to Season 1 Episode 3 (A Healing Vbac in the Middle East) where I tell my full birth story to see how this differs from a traditional sharing format.
You can also check out Christine's first birth story from abroad in Season 2 Episode 3 (Leaning into the Culture: A Vaginal Birth in Turkey).
You can find Christine's Birth Story Listening information at https://www.ivyandrill.com/ or follow her on IG @ivy.and.rill
Adam and Lauren came on to share their 5 year journey navigating infertility both in the U.S and abroad and how this lead them to pursue fertility treatment options in Spain. They also share about what it was like to process how going to the nations could impact their journey to parenthood, how their faith shaped their journey, what it is like to find care in a new country, researching fertility treatment options, the complexity of grief related to infertility, and so much more!
In this episode we discuss: The reality of home-birth abroad.
Water-birth
Pregnancy in the first year abroad.
The energy it requires to track down care options.
Host culture expectations in pregnancy
Traveling frequently in pregnancy
Relocating for birth
Supportive expat community
Nausea/Vomiting in labor
Unplanned cesarean
Processing and grieving unmet birth expectations.
Planning for further VBAC
In this episode, Alex joins us to share her story of navigating pregnancy and birth in her first 13 months of living abroad. She shares about figuring out a new medical system, inducing labor, leaning on a newly formed community to care for her older son, being unable to get an epidural, and much more!
She also shares about her Facebook community for parents of TCKs 0-5 years and her upcoming services to offer fertility awareness coaching and education for families serving cross-culturally.
Isabell joins us to share her story. She shares about her experience beginning her pregnancy Togo, then going to the U.S. due to side effects of malaria prophylaxis, and ending her pregnancy in France. Through all of the change, she has a beautiful vaginal birth.
In this episode Denise, from It's Tea Time Somewhere podcast, joins us to share how her family's story of loss, stillbirth, and two high risk pregnancies before moving overseas impacted their three pregnancies between Indonesia and Malaysia. She shares the wisdom she has gleaned from navigating birth multiple times abroad and how she strives to support others.
In this episode Jamie shares three birth stories from Belarus. We discuss: universal v private healthcare, c-sections, VBACs, moving internationally while pregnant, transverse position, leaning on the expat community, postpartum depression, and navigating testing after a prenatal marker for Down Syndrome.
Ansley joins us to share her birth story from Central Asia. In this episode we talk about: being RH negative, placental abruption, emergency c-section, the NICU, exclusively pumping, postpartum infection, postpartum depression, and God's faithfulness through it all.
Join us as Jessica tells her birth story after the death of her little boy. She explains how her original hope for a home birth ended in a planned hospital birth in Panama City after multiple provider changes during pregnancy. She also shares how this pregnancy/birth intertwined with the grief of losing their son.
Iris joins us to share two home-birth stories. The first is a home-birth in Nigeria with visiting midwives and a subsequent medical evacuation to South Africa when their daughter was experiencing respiratory distress. The second birth is at the beginning of the pandemic in Canada with local midwives.
In this episode I discuss a recent online survey I conducted and where I hope to go from here.
In this episode, LaDonna shares her story of VBAC in Ghana. In this episode we discuss an surprise breech birth with her first, finding a provider, pressure to have another c-section, and navigating the birth culture in Ghana.
In this episode we discuss: Navigating infertility while moving abroad, a pregnancy soon after arrival, depending on your new community, embracing birth in your new culture, mental shifts in pregnancy, not getting an epidural when you want one, and navigating Postpartum Anxiety
Rachel joins us to discuss two very different cesarean experiences and planning a VBAC birth.
Elsie joins me to share her amazing water-birth in a hospital in Africa.
Just a quick episode to say thank you and to reflect on the first year of podcasting.
MaKenzie joins me to share her family’s story of infertility, late term loss, deep grief, faith, and pregnancy after loss.
Amy Butler and Megan Taylor from Gap Relief join me to discuss the reality of navigating grief, loss, and mental health in the reproductive years while living abroad. https://www.gaprelief.com
Kayla joins me to share her two birth stories from the Middle East. She had two little girls in 2.5 years. Her first was in a hospital in a smaller town. Her second was born in the car on the way to the larger city!
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