What happens when your birth plan becomes a four-day ordeal of coercion, unmanaged pain, and medical gaslighting? In this deeply moving episode of Quiet Connection, host Chelsea sits down with Garrett, a mom, entrepreneur, and advocate, who shares her harrowing experience with birth trauma, the mental health fallout, and her ongoing battle with secondary infertility.
Garrett opens up about what it was like to be disregarded by providers, stitched without anesthetic, and left to process the trauma alone—until she took healing into her own hands. From a cathartic cold plunge in Wyoming to launching KozeKoze, a postpartum care company designing products that actually support birthing people, Garrett is reclaiming her story and helping others do the same.
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✨ Learn more about KozeKoze and their postpartum products at kozekoze.com
Sound Bites
“I have this insane mom guilt.”
“Motherhood has actually slowed me down.”
"I had a four-day long birth.”
“I spiked a 107 degree fever."
“I had the baby blues four nights in."
"I couldn't have done it without my husband.”
"I don't know how women do that alone.”
"I will do that for someone someday.”
"It takes a village to support a mom.”
"I just want a diaper for my boobs.”
"Birth can be beautiful, it starts with us."
Special Thanks to Steve Audy for the use of our theme song: Quiet Connection
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