Ep 330: Why This Labor Nurse Chose Homebirth
About this episode
Alehson Treadwell, a labor nurse, shares her journey from hospital birth experiences to choosing homebirth.
What happens when the person working inside the hospital system…still chooses homebirth for herself? And… what does it look like when years of witnessing birth—the beauty of it, the interventions, the emergencies, the physiology—leads someone not further from instinctive birth…but deeper into trust? This week, we're joined by Alehson Treadwell, a labor and delivery nurse, IBCLC, and mother of three, whose personal birth experiences evolved alongside her years caring for women inside of the hospital system. Episode Roundup: First… I think her story is such a powerful reminder that knowledge does not have to create fear. Alehson has spent over sixteen years working as a labor and delivery nurse. She has seen complications. She has seen intervention. She knows the hospital system deeply. And yet—rather than moving further away from physiological birth, she moved into it. Sometimes understanding physiology more deeply actually increases trust in the body—not decreases it. Next, I love the progression we hear across her births. Her first birth held anxiety, timelines, and the pressure of approaching forty-two weeks. Her second birth was fast and overwhelming in a completely different…
People in this episode
Host: Katelyn Fusco
Guest: Alehson Treadwell
Topics covered
- homebirth
- labor nurse
- physiological birth
- trust in birth
- personal birth experiences
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: IBCLC
More episodes of Happy Homebirth
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- Ep 334: "I Did It Scared": An 11-Pound Unmedicated Home Birth
- Ep 333: The Midwife Who Told Her She Didn't Need a Midwife
- Ep 332: 42 Weeks and Learning to Wait
- Ep 331: From Cesarean Grief to a Healing Homebirth
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