Shout Your Birth Mani O'Brien

Trigger Warning: this post features birth trauma, C-section trauma and obstetric violence (OV).

In today's heart wrenching episode you'll hear one woman's story of delivering both children via c-section(cesarean section).

Birthtok is a community that creates space for families to share their raw birth stories in order to heal, connect, celebrate, mourn, triumph, share and delight in the incredible experience of birthing a human.

We're on a mission to demystify birth and solve our maternal health crisis in the United States that disproportionately impacts Black and Indigenous women.

Please consider contributing your birth story at shoutyourbirth.com.

Trigger warning: postpartum depression and sexual assault.

Welcome to Part 2 of my interview with the irreverent and amazing Caitlin Benson. In this episode, we delve into the details of Caitlin's emotionally charged second birth of her beautiful son Owen, who was born via cesarean during the COVID-19 pandemic.

To kick off this episode, we start our discussion around Caitlin's postpartum experience after delivering her daughter Ellie (whose birth we discussed in Part 1). Caitlin gets candid about her struggles with anxiety and OCD and the painful discovery of how a former sexual assault impacted her postpartum journey.

We keep it real and raw here because sharing our stories can be a deeply healing experience, and we aim to discover solutions to America's terrible motherhood mortality problem. But I promise you, it's not all gloom and doom. Caitlin always has a way of keeping things light while keeping it real. In this episode, what I love is hearing about what Caitlin was able to do to advocate for herself, even in the face of unexpected changes to her birth plan. There's also a hilarious anecdote about how she discovered she had scoliosis during her labor.

Then we shift gears and get into her journey of ushering baby Owen onto the planet. Let's dive in.

Birthtok is a community for birth storytelling by Mani O'Brien. We are on a mission to demystify birth, create a community around resilience, and discuss ideas around how we can improve birth in the U.S.

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Introducing the Shout Your Birth podcast hosted by Mani O'Brien. We are on a mission to demystify birth, create community around resilience and discuss ideas around how we can improve birth in the U.S.

We invite you to contribute your own story at shoutyourbirth.com.

💌 Email us at mani@shoutyourbirth.com
👍 Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok @shoutyourbirth
🎙 Support the podcast on Patreon at patreon.com/shoutyourbirth

Part 1 with incredibly resilient Caitlin who shares two beautiful birth stories with us. In this episode she talks about birthing her first born daughter in the hospital in Los Angeles.

Introducing the Shout Your Birth podcast hosted by Mani O'Brien. We are on a mission to demystify birth, create community around resilience and discuss ideas around how we can improve birth in the U.S.

We invite you to contribute your own story at shoutyourbirth.com.

💌 Email us at mani@shoutyourbirth.com
👍 Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok @shoutyourbirth
🎙 Support the podcast on Patreon at patreon.com/shoutyourbirth

Introducing the Shout Your Birth podcast hosted by Mani O'Brien. We are on a mission to demystify birth, create community around resilience and discuss ideas around how we can improve birth in the U.S.

We invite you to contribute your own story at shoutyourbirth.com.

💌 Email us at mani@shoutyourbirth.com
👍 Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok @shoutyourbirth
🎙 Support the podcast on Patreon at patreon.com/shoutyourbirth