162. MyMaine Birth: When home birth gets real, Emma's three birth stories
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A birth can look “low risk” right up until the second it doesn’t, and Emma’s story makes that reality impossible to ignore. She joins us to share her three births in Maine: her first two were at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, then a planned home birth that became urgent in a way no checklist could predict.
We talk through inductions, Pitocin contractions, epidurals, and how hospital monitoring can limit movement and coping tools like water.
Then we shift into what changed for Emma when she chose relationship-based midwifery care and prepared for a home birth about 30…
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