EP34| Jamie - FBA2C, third time's a charm!

<p>In this episode, we meet Jamie, mother of three little ones! &nbsp;Jamie recorded this interview just 6 weeks postpartum.&nbsp;</p> <p>Jamie had an easy-going first pregnancy. &nbsp;Was offered a stretch and sweep and after talking to a friend who said it wasn't painful decided just to accept the intervention.&nbsp;</p> <p>Jamie found the S&amp;S very uncomfortable and painful. She laboured through the night and managing the contractions. &nbsp;She had a second S&amp;S the next day with her baby being born via C-Section and baby being sent to special care.</p> <p>Ending back in the hospital with an infection and taking the time to process over the next nine months Jamie found herself experiencing birth trauma and PND.&nbsp;</p> <p>Jamie then went on to fall pregnant with her second baby, a girl and the first girl in her husband's family for 90 years!!&nbsp;</p> <p>Planning a VBAC with an OBGYN and ended up in another unplanned C-Section.&nbsp;</p> <p>We have a really big conversation around PND and birth trauma and how many women are being failed by the system by the lack of support women receive through this process.&nbsp;</p> <p>Including some of the long-term impacts of difficulties with bonding with their babies and the stories and mindset challenges of feeling like a failure or not feeling good enough.&nbsp;</p> <p>She was determined to have a vaginal birth with her third baby and went back to the hospital setting and found herself wanting a homebirth. &nbsp;</p> <p>She booked in with a Doula (unregistered Midwife Martina) around 34 weeks Martina let Jamie know that she didn't feel she could work with her anymore and that Jamie wasn't there mindset wise &nbsp;( I share my thoughts on what happened here, along with why I feel it's important for people to understand their roles in birth and understand why they are hiring people to support them in birth, especially for freebirth).&nbsp;</p> <p>Fortunately, Jamie was able to connect with another doula who was happy to support her (and who was coincidentally t