#362 | Birth Trauma to Redemptive Birth: Holly's Birth and Breastfeeding Stories
About this episode
Holly shares her contrasting birth and breastfeeding experiences, highlighting the challenges and shifts she faced between them.
In today's episode, one of Trisha's clients, Holly, shares the story of two very different births and two equally different breastfeeding experiences, and what shifted between them. Her first labor began spontaneously but ended with a vacuum delivery, and the demoralizing message that her “pushes weren’t productive.” Breastfeeding was just as difficult, leading to a year of mostly exclusive pumping and undiagnosed postpartum anxiety. Four years later, she approached birth with rea...
Topics covered
- birth trauma
- breastfeeding
- postpartum anxiety
- vacuum delivery
- birth stories
Keywords
- exclusive pumping
- labor
- postpartum
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