136: Keeping Faith Amidst A Traumatic Birth - Pt. 1 (Hospital Birth, First-Time Mom, Birth Trauma) [with Kathleen Jones]

About this episode

Kathleen shares her experience of a traumatic first labor and the confusion of being sent home from the hospital.

When you get sent home from the hospital during your first labor because you're only 1.5cm dilated and told you’re in early labor, it can be quite confusing to know when to come back. Poor Kathleen ended up laboring all alone, all night long, thinking she was just in early labor, then shows up to the hospital the next morning, begging for an epidural, only to find out she was actually fully dilated and ready to push. This all sounded great, until her delivery experience was decided for her fr...

People in this episode

Host: Kayla Heeter

Guest: Kathleen Jones

Topics covered

• birth trauma
• hospital birth
• first-time mom
• labor experience
• faith

Keywords

• traumatic birth
• early labor
• epidural
• dilated
• delivery experience

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