Guest - Katelyn Pankhurst

In this beautiful episode, Katelyn shares briefly her experience birthing her first baby in hospital through the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital Birth Center with care from the Young Parents Program. Katelyn touches on some negative aspects of her experience including mistreatment from staff. She then shares her journey, deciding to have a home birth and navigating dual living and other issues that arose in making the decision. Again, her second birth was very speedy, the midwife very near missed it! She had a very empowering experience which led to her full support of home births.

Finally, Katelyn opens up and shares the surprise pregnancy with her third, very wanted, little boy. She knew immediately that her choice for birthing this time would be at home again, but without the care of a private midwife.

Hearing the ups and downs of Katelyns journey through all of her pregnancies and births will surely have you engaged and full of oxytocin.

I've also kept a little "break" in the poddy where Katelyn tends to her child, happily playing around her, because this is real life and the little voices are so sweet! Most women that I have on the podcast are breastfeeding while chatting or have their little ones around them. I love it!

Enjoy! D x

Hospital Birth - YPP (young parents program), RBWH, Birth Center

Homebirth - @mymidwives primary midwife - Karen

Freebirth <3