#033 Katherine - Doula, OB, 2x hospital births, calm birth, induction, Australian surrogate, home birth, milk donor Cuppa with a doula

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the extremely funny Katherine, I had an absolute blast recording the 3 incredible births of Katherine, who gave birth to her 2 children and was a surrogate for a couple in Australia ! 



In this episode we chat all about 



✔️having difficult access to birth education 14 years ago, but doing calm birth to help her prepare for a physiological birth 

✔️birthing her son with the same obstetrician, being very obedient and accepting an induction of labour 

✔️not feeling completely done with her family but her husband being totally done after having 2 kids 

✔️diving into the world of surrogacy, telling her husband, who initially was against the idea 

✔️drip feeding information about surrogacy to her husband who started to come around and accept the idea 

✔️steps to become a surrogate, from finding intended parents to counseling with IVF clinic to independent counseling to legal documents to being approved by a surrogacy commission before being able to actually begin the IVF process 

✔️finding her intended parents right before the global pandemic 

✔️beginning the process of transferring an embryo as the intended parents had embryo frozen 

✔️discussing birth choices with intended parents and during pre-counseling about how Katherine would like to birth as she has autonomy over her body 

✔️how the pregnancy and birth unfolded, birthing at home with baby’s intended parents present and involved 

✔️how Katherine breastfed surro baby for a bit while intended parents were around and then continued to express breastmilk and donated over 150L of milk to babies in need 

✔️how Katherine’s journey as a surrogate, someone who has birthed at home and is a doula has educated her children around fertility and birth in a whole different way 



Australian Surrogacy community Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/ftsaust?locale=fr_FR 



If you are looking for donations of breastmilk or want to donate breastmilk https://www.facebook.com/hm4hb/ 



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Alicia :)


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