About this episode

In this episode, Karen Welton interviews Jamie Bennett about her transformative home birth experience and its impact on her decision to become a doula.

What if the birth that changed everything was not your first birth, but the one that finally showed you what birth could be? In this deeply personal episode of the Pain Free Birth Podcast, Karen sits down with someone very special to the Pain Free Birth family, her personal assistant, Jamie Bennett. After two difficult hospital births, including an epidural she did not originally want and a completely failed epidural during her second labor, Jamie entered her third pregnancy knowing something...

People in this episode

Host: Karen Welton

Guest: Jamie Bennett

Topics covered

• home birth
• doula
• personal experience
• birth stories
• hospital birth
• epidural

Keywords

• home birth
• doula
• birth experience
• epidural
• hospital birth
• personal assistant
• pain free birth

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