Welcome to Bloom, the podcast where mum’s share their unfiltered birth experiences. We hope that by listening to their stories, you feel empowered and inspired, wherever you are on your own journey.

In this episode, Celeste talks us through the arrival her beautiful boy through a planned induction and emergency c-section. On reflection, she feels it sounds somewhat scary “on paper” but at the time, the experience managed to remain positive thanks to the trusted and empowering medical and support team that she had surrounded herself with.

Celeste reveals her journey with sickness, the details of and reasons for her emergency caesarean section, as well as what recovery looked like for her. Feeding was complicated and Celeste reflects on the fact that the most supposedly “natural” of things can be surprisingly unintuitive. Celeste's story is a reminder that a medical-first preparation and planned induction can provide huge reassurance and peace of mind going into the daunting experience that is birth for the first time.