In the first episode of Ready Birth Go, Carly Sandland talks to Emmerdale's Amy Walsh about two births, four years apart, and how the first one shaped everything about the second.
Bonnie arrived on Boxing Day 2021 after a Group B Strep positive result, an induction Amy was pushed towards on her due date, an epidural that fell out without anyone noticing, an episiotomy and a haemorrhage. She calls it torture, and says she came out of it feeling cheated.
So when she was pregnant with Nell, she read more, asked more, and declined nearly everything she was offered.
We talk about:
Group B Strep, and how one test result can shape an entire labour
Why a sweep is an induction, and why it's rarely described as one
Declining a seven-day induction and negotiating for ten
Epidurals that don't work
Fetal scalp monitoring
Birth trauma, and how a second birth can reopen the first
What partners carry into a second birth
Quickfire: three words, the TENS machine, and a six-hour playlist
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