In this episode we meet Laura mum to three little ones. on the surf coast in Victoria.

Laura experienced two miscarriages before she conceived her first baby, which left her quite devastated.

Laura shares that she went into her first pregnancy and birth with an OBGYN in her team that supported her during one of the miscarriages. This made her comfortable to move forward when she fell pregnant with her first baby.

She explains when it came to birth planning, she wasn't intentional, she was flowy and go with the flow. Although she wanted to have a vaginal birth but felt like a passive player in her birth journey.

Later towards the pregnancy Laura was told she had a "big baby" on board and there was conversation around induction as she didn't want the baby to get "too big" and not come out of her pelvis.

She went through the induction process and found that it wasn’t as straight forward as she had hoped.

She found herself agreeing to a C-section that was quite emotional for her.

She felt like she had a positive birth experience. Her baby was born 4.1 kilos.

She was very motivated for a VBAC the second time and she felt she was on track for a VBAC.

She got to 40 weeks and there was chat happening about "baby needs to be born soon

There was conversation of a repeat C-Section after a certain timeframe 40+ 9 and that was the plan if Laura went over that timeframe.

The night before the C-Section Laura started feeling period cramps and couldn't stand still, she lost her mucus plug and called the hospital to let them know that things were happening.

She spoke to her OBGYN who said it was good. This went on for 24 hours and she went into hospital and was positive something was happening. Her cervix was closed, tight, shut, zero CMS.

She felt disappointed and felt like her body was broken and failing her. She was offered a C-section and decided that must be the best option.

Her baby was born 40+9 and 4 kilos.

She decided she would have a maternal assisted caesarean birth with her next baby. She felt like worrying about the VBAC was a lot, so her positive spin was an easier maternal caesarean delivered baby.

Laura had moved to a different location and didn't want to travel 1.5 hours to her OBGYN with this next pregnancy and looked for a new OBGYN and found one male DR who was willing to try the maternal assisted delivery, after sharing his concerns with her.

After a couple of appointments Laura felt like this wasn't the right path for her and she started to think about a different way to birth her baby.

She found a supportive midwife to support her in a homebirth.

The midwife was only willing to support Laura if she was able to birth closer to hospital. Laura was originally okay with this, but around 35 weeks felt that it no longer felt like the right option. She parted ways with her midwife and decided to freebirth with her doula.

Listen along to hear Laura’s long three day freebirth story!!

You can connect with Laura below:

Website: physiolaura.com

Instagram: instagram.com/physiolaura

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EP82 | Freebirth after two caesareans - changed birth plan at 35 weeks from planned midwife assisted birth to freebirth