Kate’s story is a bit of a different one to those that are typically shared on here, not because she didn’t have a traumatic first birth, she did, and not because she didn’t have a healing next birth experience, she did. But, Kate’s second birth went nothing like the peaceful home birth she had hoped for and dreamed about.  Thankfully, the self work and birth preparation that she did during her second pregnancy, part of which involved us working together, meant that Kate continued to experience her birth as empowering even when it appeared to be heading down the same harrowing path as her first. This is such an important story to be sharing. Kate was empowered to fully own her birth experience, and she shares about the multitude of things she did to ensure that her medicalised birth was a positive and healing one. She also opens up about how her births led her down the path of training with me to become a certified Healing Birth practitioner, something that has been a life altering experience for her. So, it’s a bit of a longer episode but definitely a worthwhile listen. Enjoy! Also discussed in this episode: Home birth Big baby, small mama Stretch & sweep Failure to progress Artificial rupture of membranes Epidural Syntocinon (also known as Pitocin) Emergency c section for fetal distress (wrongly diagnosed) Traumatic start to breastfeeding Separation from newborn 1:1 birth trauma healing with me Supportive midwifery care HBAC planning & repeat c section planning Microbiome seeding Gentle c section options Healing Birth Practitioner Training course Becoming a Healing Birth practitioner To connect with Kate email her on [email protected] Follow my (Carla's) work on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healing.birth/ Or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healingbirthwithcarla My website contact page: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/contact Details on my Healing Birth Practitioner Training course: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/hb-practitioner-training