Madeleine Shaw on lifting her own baby out during her caesarean

In this episode of Ready Birth Go, Carly Sandland talks to nutritionist and bestselling author Madeleine Shaw about her two births, and the honest, messy, wonderful reality of becoming a mum twice over.

Her first birth was fast and unmedicated - ten hours, and she arrived at hospital already eight centimetres. Her second was a planned caesarean, and nothing about it went the way she'd pictured.

We talk about:

• A breech, big baby, and deciding not to try to turn him
• Why she never wrote a birth plan
• How an early loss shaped everything that came after
• What no one warns you about caesarean recovery
• The love, and the fear, that arrive with a new baby
• Quickfire: three words, and the worst advice she was given

Content note: this episode includes discussion of pregnancy loss and miscarriage.

Madeleine: instagram.com/madeleine_shaw_ · tiktok.com/@madeleine_shaw_ · The Glow Space, her wellness platform: madeleineshaw.com/the-glow-space

Carly: instagram.com/thedoulaclub
Ready Birth Go, Carly's birth preparation course: readybirthgo.com

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