Hannah joins us on this week's Listener Series episode to share her story. Hannah shares her journey to motherhood which began with a miscarriage that deeply impacted her experience of pregnancy and birth moving forward. Hannah then experienced a complicated subsequent pregnancy with her son that included hyperemesis gravidarum and preeclampsia. Hannah vulnerably shares her experience of obstetric violence and the impact it had on her experience of the birth of her son, as well as how she coped in postpartum.
Things you will hear on this episode:
- Hyperemisis Gravidarum
- switching providers
- obstetric violence, assault by a provider
- Preeclampsia diagnosis
- hemorrhaging after delivery
- holding providers accountable
- Hannah's recovery process and her healing journey after her birth trauma
- navigating memory loss and PTSD
- the comparison of trauma
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