EBB 385 - A Healing Birth Center Waterbirth with Michaela Raines, EBB Childbirth Class Graduate

EBB 385 - A Healing Birth Center Waterbirth with Michaela Raines, EBB Childbirth Class Graduate

A healing birth can change the way you understand everything that came before it. In this episode, Dr. Dekker talks with EBB Childbirth Class graduate Michaela Raines about experiencing a deeply healing birth after a first birth that didn't go as planned.

Michaela shares her first hospital birth story—including unexpected interventions, a long pushing phase, perineal trauma, and a NICU stay—and how those experiences shaped her postpartum recovery. She then walks us through how education, intentional preparation, and support helped her approach her second pregnancy differently, leading to a fast, unmedicated water birth at a freestanding birth center. Michaela also reflects on how this birth felt both physically and emotionally redemptive and what she would share with parents preparing for a subsequent birth after a challenging experience.

(03:13) Michaela's first birth expectations vs. reality
(04:15) Unexpected interventions, epidural, and long pushing
(08:16) Postpartum recovery and feelings of embarrassment
(09:27) Discovering Evidence Based Birth® and choosing a birth center
(12:10) Preparing mentally for an unmedicated birth
(13:26) Birth center transfer protocols and emergency preparedness
(14:34) Early labor and false starts
(19:40) Arriving at the birth center and a rapid water birth
(21:13) The healing impact of her second birth
(24:58) Freedom of movement and choosing birth positions
(30:35) Birth affirmations that carried her through labor
(31:36) Advice for parents preparing for a healing second birth

Resources

EBB 292 – Confronting the Unknowns in Childbirth with Liesel Teen of the Mommy Labor Nurse

EBB 318 – Advocating for Waterbirth in Hospitals with Dr. Liz Nutter, DNP, CNM, and Retired Lieutenant Colonel

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