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Latest / Arrivals: A Birth Story Podcast

PCOS, false alarms, COVID babies, and three hospital births

Merelise is joined this week by her friend, Melanie Green, who shares her three birth stories.

Melanie walks Merelise through her three births, which all took place in a hospital, and how ongoing back pain related to her epidural in her first birth led to her seeking a different birth experience in subsequent pregnancies. While she ended up getting an epidural during all three of her labors, she had a different recovery with each, depending on how far into labor she got the epidural, among other factors.

She reflects on her journey to motherhood, which was largely shaped by her PCOS…

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