Birth Back Then (1980's) - EP186 Mairead, 5 Pregnancies, 3 Early Pregnancy Losses, Unmedicated Birth, Major Surgery 26 WKS Gestation, Unmedicated 2nd Birth Story
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This week I share the first birth story under the new title "Birth Back Then". Mairead revisits each of her three miscarriages followed by her two birth stories. Mairead worked as a nurse all her life so gives us an insight into what that looked like along with how life looked in the 1980's as a working women trying to build her family. She gave birth to her first son unmedicated with the support of her husband within the hospital setting. We then move onto her second birth story which was very different. She was blighted with constant sickness and crippling pain. It was discovered at 26 weeks gestation that Mairead infact had a huge cyst along with other diagnosis and underwent emergency surgery.
Mairead then takes us through life post surgery and the remainder of her pregnancy. It's so hard to her how after such a short space of time her life returned to "normal", working for as long as she could until she went into labour while still very much feeling the impact of her surgery.
Mairead's story is precisely why I decided to make this addition to the podcast and open the space up for women to share their historical births.
Thank you so much Mairead
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