17 | Katie & Edie Rae - Making Space for a Baby, Choosing a Birth Centre in the UK & the Importance of a Solid Support System in Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum
In this episode we hear Katie sharing her birth story with her little girl Edie Rae in London, UK. Katie shares the journey to becoming pregnant and how it was deciding to make space for a baby in her life. Katie went through pregnancy during lockdown in 2020 and talks about the importance of community and family support and how she was able to find her way through all of that. We discuss how it is to have wishes and plans for how pregnancy, birth and postpartum will go and how that reflects in reality with how much pressure we can put on ourselves to have the perfect experience. Katie opted for a Birth Centre Birth at Homerton Hospital and after a very long labour she had an epidural and little Edie just needed a bit of support to descend with a Vonteusse and then Katie pushed her out. Katie tells us her story just 3.5 weeks postpartum so it’s very fresh in memory and a very important story to listen to if you feel like you might be putting just a bit much pressure on yourself to have the perfect experience.
Katie really recommends The Positive Birth Company Podcast and support with TTC and Hypnobirthing, reading Winging It by Anna Jefferson, The Pregnancy Podcast, The Bump Plan and The Strong Women Podcasts.
Also, as I mention in the beginning of the podcast, if you need some extra support these days, join our community online (hopefully soon also offline) The Birth Collective.
If you'd like to reach out to Katie, just send me an email at: the9monthspodcast@gmail.com and I'll forward everything to her from there.
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*The stories on this podcast are personal experiences and should never be interpreted as medical advice. Always seek out a birth professionals expertise before making any medical decisions. The 9 Months Podcast is in no way advocating for a specific kind of birth but on the contrary, we believe that all births are beautiful, just as they are.
