My Positive Home Birth Story as a First Time Mom + Q&A with Husband!

Welcome back to a new episode! It has been a long time since we had a new podcast. Life has been crazy in all the best ways after having our baby. Full Written Birth Story: https://freshfitnhealthy.com/homebirthstory/ (see FAQs here too about birth!) In this podcast I talk about my homebirth experience from my prep work to the actual birth to after the home birth. We also have Brandon at the end of the podcast to talk about the homebirth through his perspective.   In this episode of Real SOULutions: 02:30 – My home birth experience 06:30 – The difficult moments in my pregnancy 09:20 – Some of my prep work before labor 13:05 – The start of the labor 24:55 – The birthing pool incident 28:00 – The pushing time 29:35 – The actual birth 34:50 – The benefits of olive oil massage 36:30 – What is stay active management? 36:55 – My post birth story 42:00 - Start of podcast with Brandon - what prepwork/ research did Brandon do? 42:40 - What changed Brandon’s mind about homebirth? What did he think post-homebirth 44:35 - What was Brandon’s biggest fear about homebirth? 47:30 - Brandon’s thoughts while I was giving birth and the most surprising part for him 50:30 - When did Brandon go back to work? 52:30 - Ask your midwife a lot of questions 56:30 - Writing sparknotes for things you need to say 01:00:30 - Brandon’s most favorite part of fatherhood so far More Links: Labor Prep in 3rd Tri: https://freshfitnhealthy.com/prepare-for-labor-3rd-trimester/  Birth Plan and Prep as a First Time Mom: https://freshfitnhealthy.com/birth-plan-as-a-first-time-mom/ Home Birth IG Highlight Bubble answering more questions: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17968727443569518/