#026 Alicia - Exercise Physiologist, accidental freebirth, precipitous labour, birth in a caravan, breech at 34 weeks, student midwife

Hey hey,  Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation. In today’s episode I am finally giving you a quick update on my 3rd trimester (a bit late as baby has obviously been born now 🤣), but more importantly, I am telling you the story of our second girl’s birth  In this conversation I am telling you about  ✔️model of care we decided to go through after changing our birthing plan in the 2nd trimester  ✔️feeling like I was going into labour at 37 weeks and panicking as I didn’t have my hospital bag and birth prompts ready and handy  ✔️working through my fears, especially working on “not panicking” during labour (which I did during my first labour) and wanted to avoid this time around  ✔️the benefits of having a student midwife when you don’t have access to continuity of care through the public system  ✔️mapping my birth with my birth partner and preparing my partner for what I wanted, told him what to look out for and what I was declining  ✔️what I did to try and flip baby when I learned that she was in a breech position  ✔️seeing baby’s breech position as a variation of normal and changing my birthing map around it but wanting to have a breech vaginal birth  ✔️presenting to hospital at 40+6 for reduced foetal movement and being prepared to decline an induction ✔️having a crisis of confidence at 40+6, loosing faith that labour would start on its own, needing reassurance that my body was working towards labour  ✔️labour beginning at 40+6, birthing baby girl at 41 weeks, on the floor of our caravan after a very quick 2-hour labour  ✔️being in total shock of everything that happened and not realising fully that my labour was over and baby was here, pure bliss!  ✔️finding having a newborn much easier the second time around, but difficult to deal with a toddler at the same time  If you haven’t listened to it, you can find my first birth story here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/cuppa-with-a-doula/id1663704129?i=1000624323163 My first trimester update for this pregnancy here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/cuppa-with-a-doula/id1663704129?i=1000609190548 My second trimester update for this pregnancy here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/cuppa-with-a-doula/id1663704129?i=1000621320865  To be sure to be notified when a new episode comes out please subscribe to the show on your listening platform. If you would like to support the show, I would really appreciate it if you could leave a 5-star review on your podcast listening platform or Apple podcast.  If you would like to come on the show and tell your own birth story please get in touch through this link here https://forms.gle/YCCP5dMg8bYSXuAYA  This podcast is available on Deezer, Spotify, Apple podcast, most other podcast listening platforms and Youtube  Follow me on social media for more content  Facebook: www.facebook.com/cuppawithadoula  Instagram: www.instagram.com/cuppawithadoula  Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy this episode!  Alicia :)