In today’s episode, we kick off our fertility journey series as postpartum doula and babywearing educator Adriane Stare, who shared her first baby’s conception and birth story in Episode 40, returns to share her 2nd baby’s Christmas Day birth story. This is a story of a frozen embryo IVF conception and then a planned home birth that needed to transfer to the hospital in the pushing stage that results in a vaginal birth. In contrast to her first birth at home, Adriane shares some challenging aspects of her hospital stay including feeling unsupported, feeling unnecessarily shamed for attempting a homebirth, not getting the pain meds she needed for her very strong afterpains, struggling to get discharged early, and more. This episode drives home both the need for support in postpartum as well as the need for improvement in homebirth transfer relationships and education for hospital personnel on the safety of homebirth.

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