09 | Bron's 2 VBACs: Homebirth Transfer, Premature Baby, Homebirth After Caesarean (HBAC), Doula, Private Midwife, Precipitous Labour
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In this episode, we're joined by Brownyn (she/her). Bronwyn is the host of @the.motherwhelm podcast and lives in the Blue Mountains with her husband and three children.
Her first birth was a classic case of the cascade of intervention, from an induction due to gestational hypertension, to an emergency cesarean due to ‘failure to progress’. This experience left Bronwyn feeling humiliated and disempowered, and she suffered from postnatal anxiety during her postpartum.
For her second birth, she hired a private midwife and doula for a home birth after cesarean, but when she went into preterm labour at 36 weeks right before NSW restrictions lifted in 2021, she had to present to hospital without her support team. Despite all her plans being flipped on their head, Bronwyn was able to achieve her much desired VBAC in a fast and furious labour.
For her third birth, Bronwyn planned to have her 2VBAC at home with a PPM and doula. While she did get her glorious HBAC this time, it was again without her birth team because her daughter arrived with great haste and was BBA. This was by far her best birth yet!
Bronwyn is also one of the hosts of @australianvbacstories and you can listen the full version of her birth stories here.
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