73: Navigating Your Caesarean Birth: Expert Advice for an Empowered Birth Experience with Midwife and C-section Whisperer Leonie Rastas

DESCRIPTION

In this episode, we continue the conversation around Caesarean Awareness Month with our special guest Leonie Rastas, also known as the C-section whisperer. With her background in midwifery and having six children of her own born via C-section, Leonie is an expert in all things related to C-section birth and recovery.

Leonie shares her experience and expertise on topics such as birth trauma, advocating for yourself during a C-section birth, recovering from a C-section, VBAC (vaginal birth after C-section), and more. She also talks about the importance of continuing the conversation around Caesarean awareness beyond this awareness month.

This episode is for you if you want to know more about:

• Caesarean birth
• Recovery from a C-section birth
• Birth trauma
• Advocating for yourself during a C-section birth
• VBAC (vaginal birth after C-section)
• Continuing the conversation around Caesarean awareness

Links For You:

Special Guest:  Leonie Rastas https://www.caesarcare.com/ 

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Credits:

Host: Stephanie Thompson

Podcast logo artist: Khrystyna Lukashchuk

Brand Designer: Brodie-Rose

Original Soundtrack: Steven Robinson