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84. Confronting Birth Complications and PTSD: Jessica's Powerful Story

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In this episode, Jessica joins me today to share her candid and powerful birth story from Northern Lights Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

Jessica opens up about discovering her pregnancy during 2020, the struggles of being labeled as a high-risk pregnancy due to being overweight, and the cascade of pregnancy interventions that she was faced with as a result. Jessica began experiencing some blood pressure issues during the last month of her pregnancy, and with that reasoning she was scheduled for an induction at 38 weeks.

She recalls that the whole pregnancy was "not…

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