On this episode your host, Megan R Cooper, shares PART 2 of the story of her second birth – an empowered home birth after cesarean. In this episode she talks about: mental and physical relaxation techniques during birth, the difference a home birth midwifery team can make in your birth experience, tandem breastfeeding, and so much more.

Plus, Megan answers a listener question about fear of needing an emergency c-section during a home birth.

Megan went into true labor on her due date, and was hopeful that she’d give birth before the clock struck midnight.

She called in her doula and birth photographer at 9pm, and her midwives 2 hours later, when she entered into active labor and felt like giving birth was imminent.

When the midwives arrived, Megan got into the birth tub and labored for an hour and half. Her water broke, and she was beginning to feel the urge to push, but her midwife suggested that she get out of the birth pool and move to the bed to help prevent tearing.

Megan pushed for 40 minutes on hands and knees in her apartment, on her hands and knees, until her daughter, Amelia, was born. Although, she hadn’t given birth until after midnight (40+1), Megan felt absolutely elated and completely in awe that she’d just given birth from her vagina, at home, after having had a c-section.

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