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242: HOME BIRTH STORY - “High Risk” at 38 and Switching to Home Birth Mid-Pregnancy with Summer Goebel
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242: HOME BIRTH STORY - “High Risk” at 38 and Switching to Home Birth Mid-Pregnancy with Summer Goebel

Does a certain age automatically make you high-risk when it comes to pregnancy and birth? The answer depends on who you ask. For Summer’s original OBGYN, the answer was yes. At 38 and having her first child, she was considered “high risk.” Even with a healthy lifestyle (a marathon runner) and no health conditions.

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast · Independent Podcast Network | Sarah Bivens and Matthew Bivens

October 15, 201955m 9s

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Show Notes

Does a certain age automatically make you high-risk when it comes to pregnancy and birth?

The answer depends on who you ask. For Summer’s original OBGYN, the answer was yes. At 38 and having her first child, she was considered “high risk.” Even with a healthy lifestyle (a marathon runner) and no health conditions.

Ultimately, Summer wasn’t very pleased with the care she was receiving, so she transferred to a midwife within the same network (still on path for a hospital birth). But she still felt like the care lacked - she and her husband David would have a ton of questions they’d want answered and appointments were too short to cover everything they wanted. So at 22 weeks, they shifted to home birth. Worth noting here that David had his fears to work through - so we talk about that.

In her labor and birth, Summer used the birthing pool for most of the time. “It was like “aqua-dural,” she said. 

The birth itself had a few surprises - listen in to find out!

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