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290 | Chantel three births, placenta previa, planned caesarean, gentle caesarean, induction

290 | Chantel three births, placenta previa, planned caesarean, gentle caesarean, induction

Australian Birth Stories · Sophie Walker

March 13, 202255m 56s

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Show Notes

In today’s episode I talk to Chantel about her three births. She suffered Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) in every pregnancy and was medicated early on to stop the vomiting. Her severe symptoms eased by 20 weeks but she still had to navigate intense nausea till the end of pregnancy. After two vaginal births in the hospital, she accessed continuity of care in a birth centre for her third. At 34 weeks she was diagnosed with placenta previa (where the placenta covers all or part of the cervix) and after grieving the waterbirth she couldn’t have, she planned a gentle caesarean birth with her priority being skin-to-skin in theatre and recovery.

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