Ep 332: 42 Weeks and Learning to Wait
About this episode
Melissa Gurd shares her transformative journey from medically managed births to the empowerment of homebirth.
Have you ever looked back on a past birth experience and realized…“Wow, I didn’t actually know how powerful my body was”? This week, we're speaking with Melissa Gurd, wife to her husband Jason and mother of six children living on a family homestead in Florida. Melissa shares the progression of her birth experiences over the last decade—from medically managed hospital births, to a frustrating cesarean in 2020, to finally discovering the peace and redemption of homebirth. Episode Roundup: First…For some mothers, the deepest birth education happens through experience. Melissa described entering her early births with very little understanding of physiological birth, or at least without a sense of deeper purpose or desire around experiencing it for herself. So many of us in our childbearing years grew up hearing that birth is something to manage– that it’s risky, and it’s something best left to the professionals. But over time, Melissa began learning more about how the body works, how positioning matters, how nourishment matters, how patience matters… and it transformed the way she approached birth. Second… I loved hearing the redemption woven into her homebirth after cesarean…
People in this episode
Host: Katelyn Fusco
Guest: Melissa Gurd
Topics covered
- birth experiences
- homebirth
- cesarean redemption
- physiological birth
- motherhood education
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Florida
More episodes of Happy Homebirth
- Ep 335: A Homebirth Story of Faith, Fear, and Trusting Harder
- 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 331: From Cesarean Grief to a Healing Homebirth
- Ep 330: Why This Labor Nurse Chose Homebirth
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