In this episode, Host Lisa and her husband, Bryan, share their first baby’s birth story. It’s a story of giving birth in an in-hospital birthing center in Manhattan at Mt. Sinai West in 2005. You’ll hear about a textbook-length 20+ hr labor with the expert labor support of a doula, and you’ll hear about the gamechanger self-advocacy tips and strategies that they used (and you can use!) to avoid interventions that were strategically avoidable and rendered unnecessary. These strategies helped us achieve what Lisa had very much hoped for, which was an unmedicated, vaginal birth. // Birth Matters NYC group & private childbirth classes: birthmattersnyc.com // SHOW NOTES with written birth story, transcript, resources & photos: birthmattersshow.com
