Having a baby in the NICU leaves marks on you, even long after you and baby leave the NICU. There are triggers in everyday life that can bring you back to certain moments and can bring back emotions that were burried.
You're not alone, if you need help reach out, there is always someone out there who can help, guide you and listen.
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Before Shantelle shared her story on the podcast (look up episode 5 to hear Shantelle's full pregnancy, birth and NICU story), I have to admit that I didn't know what milestones for premature baby might look like. In tomorrow's episode Shantelle takes us through that to try and really understand how far these babies and parents come from.
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In motherhood we need connection, we need to feel seen, heard and for people to understand and relate to us. This was especially the case for Shantelle when she unexpectedly gave birth to her son Bowie, just shy of 24 weeks of gestation, missing all the pregnancy milestones and having to navigate an 8-month stay in the NICU.
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Next week's episode is one that reflects the strength and resilience of parents who navigate a NICU stay, Shantelle spent 8 months there and helps to set a scene for what it might look like to have a baby in the NICU, what some terms mean, what are pods, isolete, jet ventilator, what the ratio of nurse to baby means and more. An amazing episode for anyone who may be navigating through a similar journey, I send you strength
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In this week's episode, Grace @kangatrainingipswich tells out how her positive hospital birth didn't randomly happen. She worked at it, she researched, she did her preparation and most of all she knew what she wanted and what she did not want!
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Grace @kangatrainingipswich takes us through her birth preparation, trying to navigate the public hospital system and really feeling let down. One of the things that Grace did to prepare for her birth was to research absolutely EVERYTHING, anything that the doctor or midwife would say she would research and especially if she DID NOT want to go with what the hospital wanted, she researched evidence to back up her saying "no"
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One thing than Grace @kangatrainingipswich quickly learned during her pregnancy is that the outcome of her birth would greatly rely on her taking control of her birth and prepare for it. So she did, she prepared for it, she practiced the hypnobirthing techniques but MOST IMPORTANTLY, she researched everything so that she could map out her birth (shoutout to the awesome Catherine Bell @birthmapping who created the birth map!)
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"Surely I'm not at that stage" thought Sarah @the.rhyming.mum during the birth of her second. Despite having a relatively rapid first birth, during her second labour, Sarah didn't feel that she was this far in and was only minutes away from meeting her baby. Plus this time, her sister Chris was here and was the one really encouraging her to get in the pool, but her primary midwife Lynn wasn't, what a turn of events 🤣
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A birth really goes according to planned. When Sarah @the.rhyming.mum was in labour, her sister Chris was meant to come and support her as well as be the secondary midwife for the birth of her first. Nothing went to plan when Chris did not pick up the phone despite the numerous phone calls that Sarah made to her !
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If you've had a homebirth or are preparing for one you might have heard these comments "I could never do it", "I could never birth at home". Well Sarah @the.rhyming.mum did and to her, birthing in a hospital wasn't an option or something she could see herself doing.
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It's a well know fact that kids copy us, well during @naturallykellie_ Kellie's homebirth, when her daughter came to watch the birth of her baby sister, she naturally started copying her mum's pushing noises "I'm pushing like mum" she wasn't scared at all just copying, such a cute thing!
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Most parents do the heel prick test and never hear anything from it. Well Kellie @naturallykellie_ got a phone call when her daughter was barely a week old, this led her down a very eventful path of having to have further tests to confirm that her daughter had hyperthyroidism, making early parenthood very eventful with her first baby
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If you are looking for stories of mums who have walked the walk, laboured, learned all sorts of lessons and are now sharing their wisdom then welcome to @cuppawithadoula
A platform for mums and mums to be to share, reflect and learn from the power of story telling 📖☕️
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All birth stories are shared on here, the positive, the ectatic, the empowering, the not so good and everything in between!
Head over to Cuppa with a doula, available on all podcast listening platforms and Youtube to listen to all the episodes and share your story too!!! Links in bio ⭐️💫
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I have never heard anyone say they regretted doing hypnobirthing. On the contrary, mums usually say "hypnobirthing really prepared me for this", this was the case for Kellie @naturallykellie_ who after having a 3-day labour, an unmedicated and intervention-free birth, was "offered" the syntocinon to birth her placenta, something she very politely declined. Out came the bargaining but Kellie was strong in her stance and got her way.
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In motherhood we hear a lot about "going back" but what if we stopped talking about going backwards and started talking about going forward, embracing this new season that we are in and learning to really discover and nurture this new human that we have bloomed into
Listen to Janelle's episode @thewildorangetree today on the podcast
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Motherhood as a rite of passage, listen to @thewildorangetree Janelle's episode tomorrow on the podcast taking us through how to honour our postpartum period and how to respect this new and sometimes not well understood season that is postpartum. Listen to the 3 pillars of rite of passage and how to better navigate this period
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From pregnancy to motherhood, there is only 9 months but this transition is more complex than it seems. Yes you birth your baby and you become a mum but for us to really feel whole, feel ourselves, find out who we are as mums and embrace this new season of life takes time and sometimes trying to find yourself takes a huge amount of time
Listen to Janelle from @thewildorangetree talking about motherhood as a rite of passage on the podcast on Monday
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3 generations meeting each other, what a surreal moment. Cobi birther her baby boy at home with her now husband and her dad present.
A grandfather meeting his granchild
A dad meeting his son
A mum birthing her son
A son meeting his circle
How beautiful 😍
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After initially going through an OB for her antenatal care, Cobi saw that this model of care didn't align with her philosophy and in hindsight, she didn't feel respected. So half way through her pregnancy, she changed models of care, it's NEVER TOO LATE to change models of care if you feel that you are NOT CARED FOR like you should be.
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If you don't feel
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🦋 included
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it's NEVER too late to change care
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A homebirth midwife or even some MGP midwife don't NEED to check you to see how far dilated you are. Indeed, dilation doesn't actually tell you how long or short your labour is likely to be. In Mel's @theempoweredbirthers case, her private midwife never needed to do an examination, she could just look at Mel and assess where she was up to, listening and watching a women in the realm of labour is more powerful than any v*gin*l examinations
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Each labour can be widely different, which is where having a midwife providing you continuity of care (either an MGP or homebirth midwife) which will assess YOU and compared YOU to YOU is so important.
In Mel's case @theempoweredbirthers , Mel's labour began slowly but her body was doing all the important work it needed to do before she could birth her baby. Mel was fully supported and reassured by her midwife during this crucial time!
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