Aug 15, 2020
This week on the podcast, we get to hear from Alexandra Klein. She is a former CrossFit affiliate owner and coach, a fire wife, and mother of 3 daughters. She shares about the challenges and frustrations with the unexpected cesarean birth of her second daughter and using that experience to inspire, educate and empower herself for the home birth VBAC of her third.
Content Warning: Our desire with this podcast is to share the many different pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences of the people in our community. Therefore the nature of the podcast, although very personal, has what could be sensitive and/or triggering content including, but not limited to, experiences with medical emergencies, loss, miscarriage, PPD and anxiety.
Topics:
01:53 - Owning and closing a CrossFit gym
02:58 - Finding a new “home” with Street Parking
08:22 - A glimpse of life as a Fire Wife and how Street Parking has helped
15:04 - A Cervadil induction and the hospital birth of her first daughter
16:33 - Finding out that her second baby was breech at 35 weeks
17:59 - Discussing the option of an ECV
21:20 - Starting contractions for the birth of her 2nd at 38 weeks
23: 15 - Discovering she would have to have a cesarean birth
25:00 - Some of the factors that led to her frustration with the cesarean
28:50 - What is a Gentle Cesarean?
38:50 - Deciding that she would have to get educated and informed for the birth of her third
42:00 - Starting the process of planning a home birth VBAC
47:23 - Taking the Mama Natural Birth Education Class and how informative it was
50:08 - Enjoying laboring the comforts of home while in labor for the birth of her 3rd
58:00 - Feeling the baby drop and her body start pushing
1:06:00 - Feeling empowered after Austyn’s birth
IG Handle: @4mommaklein
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