Have a Surreal Birth Experience, with Emily Alsheskie

The Birthful Podcast: Summer Birth Stories 2016 #4

We continue on our “Birth Stories” for the summer series! Emily Alsheskie never really had any experience around children– nor was she all that excited about having kids. Oh, how things change! Check out her awesome and unconventional home water birth story, that happened while she lived in a small apartment, while going to school. Plus, many of the things she did to prepare for her birth, including Hypnobirthing, chiropractic, saltwater pool, birthing affirmations, deep meditation, and more.

 

 

Some of what we talked about:

• How she connected with baby during pregnancy, to lessen fears
• Listening to her gut: switching from birth center to homebirth
• Third stage of labor, and bleeding
• All the prep things: hypnobirthing, chiropractic, saltwater pool, birthing affirmations, deep meditation…
• And details of her awesome story. Duh. 🙂

 

Some of Emily’s favorite resources for birth preparation:

• Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation, By Pam England
• HypnoBirthing, Fourth Edition: The natural approach to safer, easier, more comfortable birthing – The Mongan Method, 4th Edition
• The Business of Being Born

 

Related Birthful episodes:

• Self-Hypnosis for Pain Management, with Julietta Appleton
• Baby’s Position and Labor Flow, with Gail Tully
• Chiropractic Care, with Dr. Elliot Berlin
• Healing Your Birth Story, with Pam England

 

All photos are used with permission, courtesy of Emily Alsheskie, and were taken by ©Helena Benediktsdóttir.

 

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Title music: “Vibe Ace” by Kevin MacLeod, from the Free Music Archive / CC BY (edited for length).

Sponsorship music: “Air Hockey Saloon” by Chris Zabriskie, from the Free Music Archive / CC BY (edited for length).