E118: My Birth Stories Part 1

Send us Fan MailBirth stories can turn into life stories fast, and I’ve realized mine explain more about my work than any resume ever could. I’m Angie Rosier, and I’m finally sharing the first three births that shaped me, not as perfect highlight reels, but as honest, complicated, empowering hospital labors that taught me what support really means.We start with my first pregnancy in the late 90s: intense nausea while working and finishing college, picking an OB for all the wrong reasons, and taking a hospital childbirth class that makes me feel strong. Then my water breaks with meconium-stained fluid, contractions ramp up, and I find myself deep in back labor, leaning hard on my husband’s counterpressure and a nurse who actually believes in unmedicated birth. I also talk about an episiotomy done without my permission, how fast labor can still feel endless, and why early breastfeeding can feel like the most helpless responsibility even when everything is technically “normal.”My second birth is slower and simmering, full of waiting, home labor, a tub that feels like magic, and that sudden shift when the waters break and transition hits like a wave. The third pregnancy brings a curveball: I discover I’m pregnant while marathon training and decide to run anyway, then go overdue and decline induction. That third, textbook nine-hour labor includes a nurse who becomes the kind of support I didn’t even know to ask for, and it leads straight to the moment someone tells me, “You should become a doula,” launching the career I never knew existed.If you care about unmedicated hospital birth, natural childbirth preparation, labor coping tools, breastfeeding realities, and what great nursing support looks like, you’ll find something here to take with you. Subscribe for the next part of the story, share this with a friend who loves birth stories, and leave a review telling me: which moment in labor do you still remember most clearly?Visit our website, here: https://hatchednlatched.com/Follow us on Facebook at Hatched & LatchedFollow us on Instagram at @hatchenlatchedShow CreditsHost: Angie Rosier Music: Michael Hicks Photographer: Toni WalkerEpisode Artwork: Nick Greenwood Producer: Gillian Rosier FramptonVoiceover: Ryan Parker