Bianca completes her beautiful story in Part 2.

Her reflection includes the healing process of having a home water birth and comparing this experience to her previous vaginal delivery in hospital. We talk about how good birth can be, and how healing it can be for previous birth trauma. Bianca also talks us through dealing with pregnancy loss whilst parenting, and her final pregnancy - dealing with the nonchalantly made diagnosis of 'incompatible with life' and the journey it created for her and her partner. She closes the episode with how they reached the decision that their family was complete, despite pregnancy loss.

Bianca shares knowledge with the wisdom of having lived it. That alone is something rare and beautiful.

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"Parenting after loss comes with anxiety I didn't ask for and joy I didn't know I'd get to have." -Bianca Johnson

In today's episode I sit down with Bianca Johnson; pregnancy loss coach, author of "All these lines", and mother to two living children. Over two episodes she takes us through her journey to motherhood (which spans 8 pregnancies, one elective termination, four miscarriages, one termination for medical reasons, and two vaginal births). We discuss joy, grief and anxiety. Bianca's open, genuine and positive tone in reflection is truly a rare and precious resource for parents dealing with loss and hope. We end this episode in the early post-partum after her first vaginal birth. In her next episode we use the story of her home birth to discuss the true healing that autonomy in labour can achieve after loss and birth trauma.

Bianca is also the founder of the Baby Bryce foundation, and an online community for loss moms in South Africa ☎️ Get in touch with Bianca at: https://biancajohnson.me/bianca-johnson-pregnancy-loss-coach-south-africa/ Or on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/i.am.biancajohnson?stkn=MXdwdWV3MnRzcGk2Mg== 🔊 Birthing course and Birth Stories Mzansi platform: https://birthstoriesmzansi.base44.app

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This is part 2 of Amy’s story. In this honest, thrilling account of unexpected turns on her road to becoming a mother again, Amy lays out what it took. After a cardiac arrest during fertility treatment she decided to take a break from her IVF journey before finding out she was pregnant. She went from an unexpected, miraculous and uncomplicated pregnancy, to an unexpectedly complicated birth and an NICU stay. Amy takes us through the tension of struggling to breastfeed, and how she finally let go without judging herself. Amy is passionate, engaging, and opens her heart to moms in this season.

If you missed part 1 you can find it here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ijqZK3bMRSopwWS7JIrgC?si=myUAqY45SFa2SugX-P8crg

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