What Happens when you are Surprised by a Lovely Pregnancy? Courtney's Birth Story, Part I

Today's guest shares her experience of pregnancy, birth and motherhood, none of which conformed to her expectation. She walked into pregnancy ambivalently....and to her surprise loved many of the aspects of the experience that people often find difficult; because of a lifelong struggle with insomnia, the nine month hormone bath of pregnancy gave her luxurious periods of long sought-after sleep; she approached the pain of delivery as a unique experience between herself and her future daughter, and those early sleepless months with a newborn, which so many find challenging, turned out to be a period she'd been trained by her insomnia to manage better than most. I've spoken to hundreds of women about their experiences, and I've never heard this perspective....what follows is the first part of our conversation.

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