More than Milestones
More than Milestones
Kaitlin Rickerd
16. My Birth Stories: Trauma, Healing, and the Truth I’ve Never Shared
30 minutes Posted Dec 9, 2025 at 10:00 am.
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Trigger warning: I share traumatic details of my birth story. If you’re heading into your own birth, you may want to skip parts of this episode. I’ve been nervous to record this because these stories still feel so close. After my conversation with Illiyin Morrison in Episode 15, I finally felt permission to stop minimizing what I went through and to share the births that shaped me and my postpartum experiences. I start with Aud’s story. I had gestational hypertension with all three pregnancie...