144: Make Sure You Trust Your Birth Care Provider (Natural Birth, Home Birth, Water Birth) [with Aileeah Colgan]

About this episode

Aileeah Colgan shares her journey of switching to a home birth after a life-altering cancer misdiagnosis.

At 18 years old, before you’re ready to start a family, you’re told that you have cancer and that you’ll have a very hard time getting pregnant one day so you should just plan on doing IVF. Then, you find out that your test results got mixed up with somebody else's and that none of those things are true! Would you be able to fully trust the medical establishment after that? At 36 weeks into her first pregnancy, Aileeah decided to switch to a home birth, a place where she knew she could relax ...

People in this episode

Host: Kayla Heeter

Guest: Aileeah Colgan

Topics covered

• trust in birth care
• home birth
• natural birth
• water birth
• medical establishment
• cancer and pregnancy

Keywords

• birth care provider
• home birth
• natural birth
• water birth
• IVF
• cancer
• pregnancy

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