55. Katie’s pregnancies, births & nursing journeys including birthing at 44 weeks. These stories are full of wisdom, compassion, trust & love

The Heart of the Soul with Amana Be Love

Happy Full Moon Beautiful Soul Sisters Moon 🌕

Today is May 5th (5/5/2023)

✨ I feel deeply honored & grateful to be sharing with you stories & wisdom from one of my Sistership clients and Soul Sister, Katie Watson. Katie is an incredibly wise woman who shares her stories with honesty, vulnerability and compassion.

✨ Katie shares her incredible journey & transformation from Maiden into Mother. Her first birth a free birth turned hospital transfer, her second birth a freebirth at 44 weeks at home with her husband and son. This Episode was recorded on April 2nd 2023 Watch Katie Share her stories on Earthing Nova YouTube @amanabelove 🌕 Some of what is shared in this episode includes: ~ Born and raised in Montana, Katie talks about how the outdoors have shaped her. ~ Even though she worked with kids, she didn't know she wanted to be a mother. ~ How she went from being oblivious about birth to taking full responsibility of her birth. ~ Meeting her husband, surprise pregnancy 4 months later. ~ Shifting out of disordered eating in pregnancy. ~ Katie’s relationship with her Mother shifting through her pregnancies, setting new boundaries. ~ Having an appointment with a midwife and intuitively knowing her vibe was off. ~ Hearing about freebirth and deciding that is what she wanted to do. ~ The challenges she faced telling the people around her of her freebirthing plans. ~ Katie’s perceived difference in contractions with and without pitocin (synthetic oxytocin) ~ Being asked to birth on her back and threatened with vacuum & forceps as her son was emerging from her body. Coached pushing. ~ Hospital staff pleasantly allowing her to leave after her birth and then contacting CPS without warning & how that “cast a dark cloud over the first weeks of her postpartum.” ~ Katie’s second pregnancy. Knowing she wanted to freebirth. ~ Moving to a new place in pregnancy, needing some separation from her family for her birth. ~ Setting new and clear boundaries with her mother, with strength and love. ~ Nursing challenges & aversions during pregnancy. Setting boundaries and consciously, lovingly weaning her son and moving him out of her bed. ~ The hardest parts to navigate with her husband and family’s fears. Facing her own fears. ~ Being in a new place without in person support in pregnancy and postpartum. ~ Fears about baby having his umbilical cord around his neck (nuchal cord) How this can be protective and how babies are born fully with the cord around their neck. Check out my own daughter's emergence with Nuchal Cord https://youtu.be/qEO1CqBIYb4 or my playlist of Mother managed nuchal cords https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYn_-DmjATmhCSW2_Vdn3o6tBU7ahczcn ~ Prepping meals for postpartum in pregnancy. ~ Katie’s simple preparations for birthing her baby. ~ Gestating her second son into the 44th week of pregnancy. ~ How Katie’s older son took an unprecedented 3 hour nap during her labor. ~ Birthing her 2nd son witnessed only by her husband. ~ Feeling humbled when she experienced challenges breastfeeding Race, her second son and how this has taught her to have more compassion for other mothers.

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