EP97 | Briana - Freebirth after Classical Scar (baby loss at 20 weeks) Rainbow Baby

<p>In this episode, we meet Briana Mum of three, two boys and one little girl and lives in Virginia, USA. </p> <p>Briana planned for a homebirth with first baby, had a great experience. Had pre-term labour at 31 weeks and baby came around 37 weeks. The birth was straight forward around 9 hours and baby was born at home. </p> <p>Second baby everything was going to plan up until 20 weeks and during that time she was looking at houses and she was hit in a car accident. She ended up suffering from a placental abruption and she was rushed to hospital. </p> <p>She found out her baby&#39;s heart rate had decreased dramatically. She was put under GA and rushed into surgery in a bid to save her baby&#39;s life. </p> <p>Unfortunately, her baby didn&#39;t make it. A devastating loss. </p> <p>She had a classical C-section and was told that any other babies need to be born via C-Section. </p> <p>With baby three Briana looked around with supportive midwives for a homebirth and couldn&#39;t find anyone. She was told by many that it was &quot;too risky&quot; and encouraged to birth in hospital. </p> <p>She was unsure during her pregnancy if she would vaginally birth or have a repeat C-section and at 31 weeks she decided to have a VBAC in the hospital and was seeing midwives for antenatal care. </p> <p>She started to learn about physiological birth and then felt like hospital birth wasn&#39;t the right path. She started to research it further after seeing some Instagram videos and posts and completely changed her mind about her birth environment. </p> <p>She did not inform the midwife of the change of birth plans and continued with the antenatal support and appointments. </p> <p>Briana went into labour around 40 + 5 and she planned to labour alone as much as possible with a friend who planned to come &amp; support her around 7 pm. Within 30 minutes of her friend arriving her waters broke and her body started pushing and her baby was out. </p> <p>Briana said it was the toughest labour and intense from the start, but one of the