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Podcast: Positive Birth Australia
Episode: S3 EP90: Jo Duthie - Belly birth/preeclampsia/placenta abruption + VBAC/shoulder dystocia
Description: On today’s show we hear from Northern River’s artist and mother of two, Jo.
Being a yoga teacher when she fell pregnant with her first baby at 21, helped Jo connect with her innate instincts and trust in physiological birth. She loved the continuity of care she received from the midwives at her local birth centre where she was planning to birth her baby, but at her 34 weeks scan concerns were raised about her high blood pressure. A preeclampsia diagnosis and placenta abruption sent her straight into theatre for an emergency c-section at 34+2 weeks.
After that experience she dove deep...