EP 14. What We Carry Into the Birth Room & Why it Matters — Emma's Story
About this episode
Jade and Emma discuss the emotional and psychological aspects of childbirth and motherhood, focusing on personal experiences and the importance of mental preparation.
What if the hardest part of giving birth has nothing to do with the birth itself? In this episode, Jade sits down with Emma — a mother of two and small business owner — for a tender, honest conversation about the things we carry into pregnancy, labour and motherhood long before our babies arrive. Emma had two C-sections, four years apart, and two completely different experiences. The difference wasn't medical. It was what she came to understand about herself — and what she finally let herself say out loud. She shares what it was like to go into her first birth with her childhood trauma buried and unspoken, the obstetrician who gently saw through her at her six-week check, and how being honest the second time around changed everything. This is a conversation about what surfaces when we're at our most vulnerable, the quiet power of telling just one trusted person, and how Emma slowly found her way back to herself — not through anything big, but through the smallest, most ordinary moments of joy. In this episode, mama, we talk about: Why mental preparation matters as much as the nursery or the birth plan How our past can resurface in the birth room without warning What changes when…
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