Birth as Transformation | Suzzie Vehrs

Today, we talk with Suzzie Vehrs, founder of She Births Bravely, a website aimed at helping moms feel totally prepared to powerfully birth their babies (www.shebirthsbravely.com). She is also a trained doula and author of Divine Birth: A Collection of Wisdom + Coloring Pages to Inspire and Empower the Pregnant Mother (https://shebirthsbravely.com/divine-birth-book/). She shares how when she first became pregnant, she was deeply afraid of birth, and tells how she worked against a lack of positive birth experiences to prepare for her first delivery, which, though being a somewhat difficult C-section, was not the traumatic experience she feared it would be. For her next pregnancy, she started working hard researching to improve her next birth experience, breaking the cycle of pain and developing a passion for birth that she wanted to share. Suzzie then talks about how she formed She Births Bravely, and we discuss the work it takes to prepare for birth, explaining how that preparation can make birth a transformative experience. We discuss how to communicate your desire for a transformative birth experience with you friends, family, and birth team, and how to prepare them to help you carry out that goal. Suzzie shares her approach to birth plans, as well as what she includes on the ones she helps her clients to make. We have a candid discussion about the topics on Suzzie’s new guide, 11 Surprising Things That Can Happen During Birth And What To Do, which you can download here: https://shebirthsbravely.com/11-things. We finish by talking about the resources available at shebirthsbravely.com, and encourage expecting mothers to explore the options available to them to make their birthing experience as positive as it can be.

• 0:54 Suzzie’s Experiences in Birth
• 4:11 She Births Bravely and Birth as a Transformation
• 17:01 11 Surprising Things That Can Happen During Labor
• 48:26 Resources at shebirthsbravely.com

"You should know things like, Do you want an epidural, do you not want an epidural? Do you want a vaginal birth, do you not want a vaginal birth? Are there specific ways that you cope with pain, or specific places that you carry tension in your body? Does your mind go to a certain set of negative beliefs, or are there certain positive scripts that you’ve worked on that you want someone to help you remember? I think those are the basics of what I usually put on a birth plan. The hospital’s gonna want to know if you’re breastfeeding, if you’re not breastfeeding. Do you want a golden hour — do you want to hold your baby before it gets weighed?” 13:29

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