About this episode

Veronica shares her unexpected home birth experience where her husband caught their baby before he had his morning coffee.

What would you do if your baby came so fast… your husband hadn't even had his morning coffee yet? Veronica planned a home birth... she just didn't plan for it to look like this: her husband catching their daughter in their bedroom, the midwife and doula still an hour away, and a baby who had absolutely no interest in waiting for anyone. And she definitely didn't plan for her placenta to be so rare that a midwife with YEARS of experience had never seen anything like it... ... Or for that sam...

People in this episode

Guest: Veronica

Topics covered

• home birth
• birth story
• unexpected delivery
• midwife
• doula
• placenta

Keywords

• home birth
• birth story
• midwife
• doula
• placenta

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Organizations: My Essential Birth

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