141: Hold Your Birth Plan Loosely, But Not Your Convictions (Home Birth, Hospital Transfer, Natural Birth) [with Jennifer Plemmons]

About this episode

Jennifer shares her experience and decision-making process regarding home birth and hospital transfer when faced with complications during labor.

When you’ve already had 3 babies and 2 home births, you plan to have your next baby at home as well. But what do you do when your water unexpectedly breaks and there’s thick meconium in it? You have a decision to make. Do you decide to stay at home where you prefer and had planned to birth with the small risk of meconium aspiration, or do you decide to go to your least desirable location, the hospital, just in case? Which decision is God giving you peace about? Find out as Jennifer shares her...

People in this episode

Host: Kayla Heeter

Guest: Jennifer

Topics covered

• home birth
• hospital transfer
• natural birth
• birth plans
• meconium aspiration
• Christian faith

Keywords

• home birth
• hospital transfer
• meconium
• birth plans
• Christian birth story

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