S6 EP184: Laura Bergen-Roberts: GD Diagnosis + Policy Pressure / 42+3 Hospital Birth with PPH / Healing Homebirth

About this episode

Laura Bergen-Roberts shares her transformative journey through motherhood, highlighting her experiences with gestational diabetes, hospital birth challenges, and a healing homebirth.

This week I’m joined by Laura, a mother of two whose journey into motherhood began with loss, resilience, and ultimately, transformation. After an early miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy that required surgery, falling pregnant with her daughter felt deeply healing. Yet her first birth inside the system carried its own challenges - a gestational diabetes label, weeks of policy pressure, and the weight of self-advocacy that left her bracing for battle rather than softening into trust. Though she went on to birth she had planned at 42 weeks, a postpartum haemorrhage cast a long shadow over what might have been a fully empowering experience. For her second birth, she chose to be at home and entered labour with a profound sense of trust. In the early hours of New Year’s Eve, she brought her baby into the world swiftly and instinctively, receiving him with her own hands - a deeply healing contrast to her first experience. Laura’s story reflects the freedom that comes when we step beyond “good girl” conditioning and into the full magic and capability that birth holds. Show Notes:  Instagram: @wisdoms.from.the.womb Midwife: @ candace.beautifully.natural Birth Photography/Film…

People in this episode

Host: Skye Waters

Guest: Laura Bergen-Roberts

Topics covered

• gestational diabetes
• homebirth
• postpartum hemorrhage
• self-advocacy
• motherhood journey
• trust in birth

Keywords

• gestational diabetes
• homebirth
• postpartum hemorrhage
• self-advocacy
• motherhood
• trust in birth
• birth experience

Sponsors

Esfera Designs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Esfera Designs, Instagram, mamacarabirth, maddydartphotography, candace.beautifully.natural

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