Today’s home birth story features Jamie Lazzeri, an Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner, DONA Trained Birth Doula and Holistic Pregnancy Coach. 
Jamie talks about her obsession with birth before becoming a mother, her doula work and how that all influenced the kind of birth she wanted to have for her and her baby. 
She also shares a number of great resources that helped her in her journey - including the importance of learning from and sharing birth stories and the benefits of prenatal yoga. 
Jamie’s birth was peaceful and empowering overall. Coming out of the birth, she realized a number of triggers that brought on PPD and activated hidden PTSD, related to past sexual trauma. She realizes that her birth opened up the space to look at the traumas and begin to heal. This is an incredibly courageous and important conversation to have, as many experience this but do not talk about it. 
From Jamie: “I wish I had heard someone talk about this so I could have gotten the help I needed before going through that for so long and I imagine if I'm able to be on your podcast, there will be birthing people that could benefit from this information and not feel alone.” 
Things we talk about in this episode:

Importance of birth stories

Why home birth

Prenatal yoga

Resources for birth and postpartum planning

PPD and PTSD

EMDR therapy


Links:

Resources that Jamie listed:

Hypnobirthing


Evidence Based Birth 


Spinning Babies 

The Birthful Podcast

The Informed Pregnancy Podcast

Birth Kweens Podcast

"The Birth Partner" by Penny Simkin

"Ina May's Guide to Childbirth" by Ina May Gaskin

"When Survivors Give Birth" by Penny Simkin and Phyllis Klaus

"The Mama Natural Week-By-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth" by Genevieve Howland

"Birthing From Within" by Pan England and Rob Horowitz

"Breastfeeding Made Simple" by Nancy Mohrbacher and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett

"The First Forty Days - The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother" by Heng Ou, Amely Greeven and Marisa Belger

"This Isn't What I Expected - Overcoming Postpartum Depression" by Karen Kleiman and Valerie Davis Raskin

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