My Positive Elective Induction & Epidural Birth Story: Reflections for Expecting Moms
Taylor's out this week (she's in Hawai'i for a friend's wedding 🌺), so Natasha is flying solo to share her first birth story — from a hyperemesis gravidarum pregnancy through weeks of prodromal labor, an elective 39-week induction, Cytotec, Pitocin, an epidural at 5cm, and a sunny-side-up baby who needed to be flipped before pushing.
In this episode, Natasha covers:
What hyperemesis gravidarum actually is (and how it was mismanaged for her)
Weeks of prodromal labor and why does no one warn you about it??
How an "elective induction" scheduling actually works (spoiler: it's not really…
The skinny
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