30 | Tera & Hanna - Following Your Intuition, Midwife Supported Birth and an Icelandic Love-Story

In this episode we hear Tera sharing the birth of her daughter Hanna in Reykjavik, Iceland. Tera is Czech, but spent some time working in Iceland where she met her partner. Tera tells the story of how they met and found out early on in their relationship that they were going to be parents and how everything unfolded. She received care in the Czech medical system for a few months before changing over to the Icelandic one and she shares how fundamentally different the care was between these both places.

We talk about birth not being painful, but hard work towards meeting our babies, about labouring in the midnight-sun, midwife led-care, trusting your intuition as well as surrounding yourself with people that you trust and about the importance of good postpartum support.

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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.