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Sep 26
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440: Birth Q&A: All Things Home Birth, P...

Monica Yates
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Monica sits down to answer your juicyquestions on alllllll things birth!

 

From choosing health practitioners,how much home birth costs, handling family reactions, tearing during birth, ifthey ended up doing the deep throat technique (yes, obviously, someone asked,and Monica naturally answered with zero filter, lol), and more.

 

This one will paint an honest pictureabout what women’s bodies are actually capable of when they feel safe,supported, and unafraid.

 

If you’re preparing for birth, healingfrom a past one, or even just curious about what even IS a positive birth… thisconversation is exactly what you’ve been waiting for!!

 

Questions answered:

🤍 All about your home birth decision. Were you ever afraid of not being ina hospital? (02:09)

🤍 Any support you really leaned on: supplements, teas, acupuncture,Chinese medicine? (05:18)

🤍 What courses do you recommend taking to have a great birth? (09:20)

🤍 The best tool or thing you did for pain relief (15:33)

🤍 How did you deal with the potentially negative family reactions to yourbirth plan? (19:17)

🤍 How to keep your mind positive and not fall into the fear of theunknown? (24:10)

🤍 How much did your home birth cost? (30:20)

🤍 Why did I have a doula? (36:48)

🤍 How to prevent tearing. (38:49)

🤍 Did you choose to leave the placenta connected for a while beforecutting? (40:30)

🤍 Was there any fear going into labour? (40:38)

🤍 How did you decide on the best practitioners for you? (44:24)

🤍 Any quiet days, movement-wise? (47:09)

🤍 Did I know when I was going through transition? (51:13)

🤍 Any questions around prepping to fall pregnant? (52:10)

🤍 What helped you stay most in the zone and surrender? (52:17)

🤍 For the points that you felt like you could not do it, what helped youthrough? (54:57)

🤍 Was Tripp communicating to you during labour? (59:18)

🤍 Did you do the deep throat technique? (59:56)

🤍 How did you convince Hal to be okay with the home birth? (01:03:38)

 

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