Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation. Today I chat with Alyssa, a busy mum to 3 children

In this conversation we chat about 

✔️having a long conception to conceive her first daughter due to an undiagnosed thyroid condition 

✔️Having her waters break or leak around 37 weeks and having an ultrasound later in the pregnancy showing low fluid levels and a “small baby”

✔️agreeing to be induced due to low fluid levels and baby showing as being on the small side 

✔️what the induction process was like for Alyssa and having a doctor encourage her to see how her body was responding to the induction before having the oxytocin drip put in

✔️receiving the syntocinon (synthetic oxytocin) injection to birth the placenta without consent being asked 

✔️feeling very very sick throughout the whole of her pregnancies but managing it better which each pregnancy

✔️wanting to have a different model of care this time around and very much wanting continuity of care through a private midwife 

✔️the vast difference of care between her first pregnancy with extra ultrasounds in a very medicalised environment compared to having a private midwife and just “chilling out” at home 

✔️experiencing an asthma attack for the first time during her 2nd pregnancy, without having had a history of asthma 

✔️how Alyssa involved her daughter into the pregnancy and birth of her baby brother and advice on what she would do differently 

✔️finding out that she was unexpectedly pregnant, being shocked as Alyssa’s second baby wasn’t 1 year old yet and booking the same private midwife as for her 2nd straight away 

✔️Alyssa breastfeeding her last baby until well past 2 years of age and enjoying this last journey 

✔️Alyssa’s postpartum advice to tune out the noise and parent your baby the way that feels right for you, rather than the way that others want you to do it 

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