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Podcast: Positive Birth Australia
Episode: S4 EP109: Liv Davis: Same-sex couple/Fertility journey/Birth trauma + Empowering hospital birth/Hypnobirthing
Description: Today we hear the two contrasting birth experiences of The After Birth podcast host, Liv. Being a same-sex couple, Liv and her wife used a sperm donor to conceive their babies. Having great luck with conception, it was a turbulent pregnancy that eventually led Liv to consider an induction. Amidst the cascade of interventions she was able to push back on the recommended cesarean and ask for more time; a choice that helped her avoid surgery but not the birth trauma that ensued. When it was time to conceive their next child, she refused to giv...