BEFORE YOU LISTEN: With this birth there was some healing and lots of awesome personal development that I had to overcome, when you listen you will hear on why its so important to take a big note of your support networks and the information that you receive in birth. This is a good learning story that has me where I am today! So here it is! My first and upmost transforming birth experience that shifted me to WOMAN! So, there was some healing that I had to overcome from this birth, and it took me a long long time to even realise what those feelings meant! I got told the classic ‘your baby is healthy so shut the f&^% up’ scenario!!! Not in those words of course! So yes it affected my bonding and I took the way I was treated straight to my vulnerable heart at the time. However… now look at me!.. Melissa & Deb from How to Heal a Bad Birth stated this well in their Instagram post This experience still has a place there for me, yet I can look at in now and observe, its not confronting my choices! This is the story of a hospital birth in a busy city hospital. I, at the time was looking to birth as a single mother so you will hear about how the support and the challenges I faced into this birth. So you will listen to this story and I can now tell it in ‘light’ I hope this will find some space where you can find understanding. I am so glad I spoke to Deb and Melissa in Episode 7 and soon to come Part 2 as I have really sat with my birth and now found the right space to tell this with some more clarity and intent of healing. I feel I could look it now with a bit more light and humour, which is nice! Listening to these woman really motivated me to get this story out speak more of my alignment into the person and mother I am and can still grow into. Now I love it, I am completely into healing, connectivity to the natural patterns of earth and embracing our feminine. So with that the more we share our journeys of birth and healing the more we can develop and embrace our innate parenting abilities. Resources * Well this should be the what I have ‘learned’ section as I mentioned in the podcast I did not do much reading or researching, and yes, as you will hear in the podcast I was to naive for going into the hospital system not prepared! If was in sock draw… we would have nailed it! In a sense I handed over responsibility to the system… listen to your intuition it really knows best! For the rest, take what you need from your chosen care providers and leave the rest. Ask for support from those who have experienced first hand to! * Support… I have some amazing people in my life and things could have been a whole lot different! So yipee to all those people who helped me keep it all funny and true!! * Language in birth – find your own style and what works for you that fosters positivity. * Saucepans.. .listen to the podcast 😉 * Walking – I walked and biked everywhere ate beautifully to my best ability (yes dumpster diving while pregnant is completely ok!), my pregnancy was slow and mindful and I put allot of that down to the outside interactions, community and maybe the jalapeño addiction! * No-one has as much stake in this as yourself! Ask for help – I was to focused on the ‘I can do this’ and the breastfeeding was very tricky at times – Australian Breastfeeding Association they are great 24/7 if you need it. https://www.breastfeeding.asn.au * The placenta is part of the family to! My birth partner skipped home (delirious) with my placenta and it kept well in the freezer until we planted it under a ‘Mallee’ tree.