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Latest / Arrivals: A Birth Story Podcast

A birth center birth, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a retroverted uterus, and a bifurcated placenta

Trigger warning: this episode contains brief discussion of pregnancy loss.

This week, Merelise is joined by her friend Dr. Charlie Watts, mom, doula and pelvic floor occupational therapist.

They discuss Charlie’s winding path to birth work and how the experience of birthing her son has changed both her doula and occupational floor practice. Charlie talks Merelise through her difficult pregnancy, where she was first misdiagnosed with a velamentous cord insertion, then discovered she had a connective tissue disorder and was eventually diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome postpartum. She shares…

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