Birth Matters
Birth Matters
Lisa Taylor - Birth Matters NYC Childbirth Education & Labor Support
86: Managing Anxiety with Birth Team Choices
1 hour 32 minutes Posted Jul 5, 2022 at 4:00 am.
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Michelle knew all of her life that she experiences medical anxiety and convulsive syncope. So, when she started thinking about her deep desire to grow a family, she started educating herself and preparing strategically. Knowing herself and her anxiety challenges, she started planning for an unmedicated birth. Along the way, her strategies included eventually changing OBs who would be more supportive of her preferences and needs, hiring a doula, doing lots of research and taking birth class. This is a story of how this preparation contributed to her well-supported, uncomplicated, unmedicated hospital birth.

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