EP72 | (Part 1) Sarah - Homebirth after two caesareans, special scar + birthing through pain

<p>In this episode, we meet Sarah, the mother of now four babies.&nbsp;</p> <p>In Sarah's words, this is a bit of her story - Part 1 of Sarah's Story<br> <br> My 1st baby, 18 years ago, was a breech-planned cesarean. Postpartum I was treated like crap in the hospital and discharged myself the following day.</p> <p>2nd Baby, 15 years ago, was a cascade of interventions starting with a "just going to do a stretch and sweep during a check-up", and diagnosed GBS so being at the hospital far too early.&nbsp;</p> <p>36 hours of labour and "failed to progress", some meconium in the waters, an iffy ctg, resulting in a cesarean which something went badly wrong in, &nbsp;my uterus tore and I literally almost died. Postpartum was rough, I had a blood transfusion 4 days later.</p> <p>3rd Baby, 11 years ago I was surprised KEMH offered a VBAC. Exactly 40 weeks I woke with some mild contractions around 7 mins apart. I got up and had some tea and toast and with contractions 5 mins apart we made the 1.5-hour journey to the hospital during which they slowed so much we almost turned around.&nbsp;</p> <p>As I got to KEMH my waters broke and she was born around 4 hours later. I had some major pain in between contractions during that birth to the point once she was born I couldn't hold her. This extreme pain continued til I was finally listened to a couple of days later and readmitted to ICU with no real information given to me. I had some kind of infection and was treated like shit in the hospital during this time.</p> <p>We were finished having babies til we found ourselves pregnant again by complete chance, and sadly lost that baby. My heart was so lost, I felt incomplete. On the 13th month after that loss, we finally fell pregnant again.</p> <p>I knew I didn't want to have this baby in the hospital. The idea was just something I couldn't get my head around. So we planned a homebirth at my sister's house as we live 2.5 hours away from a decent hospital.</p> <p>There is so much more to this story than Sarah share's I love how hones