Ep 324: From Monitoring to Trusting: A Nurse’s Birth Transformation

About this episode

Emily, a labor and delivery nurse, shares her journey from a controlled hospital birth to a trusting homebirth experience.

What happens when you know too much about birth… and you’re experiencing pregnancy and birth for yourself? This week's episode, I’m joined by Emily—a labor and delivery nurse who found herself navigating pregnancy and birth as both a provider and a patient. We talk about how working inside the hospital shaped her first birth… what shifted in her mindset the second time around… and how she ultimately chose a homebirth rooted in surrender. Episode Roundup: First—this idea of knowing too much: how too much information can sometimes lead us to questioning ourselves, our bodies and our instincts– information overload can create fear instead of clarity. I love how Emily was so aware of this– how what she’d seen and experienced at work actually needed to be balanced with nervous system regulation, surrender, and leaning into her own intuition. During postpartum with her first baby, Emily felt like she missed much of the experience because it seemed impossible to turn her brain off and simply trust. But that first experience transformed how she would interact with pregnancy, birth and motherhood from then on. Second—the shift from control into surrender… not just in birth, but in…

People in this episode

Host: Katelyn Fusco

Guest: Emily

Topics covered

• birth transformation
• homebirth
• nervous system regulation
• motherhood
• trusting instincts

Keywords

• birth
• homebirth
• nervous system
• motherhood
• trust
• intuition
• pregnancy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Happy Homebirth

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