The New Mamas Podcast

Just Chatting: 30 Week Pregnancy Update - Gestational Diabetes, Hiring a Doulatog and PostPartum Doula, & Thoughts About My 2nd Birth

October 11, 2023 Lina Forrestal Season 2 Episode 92
The New Mamas Podcast
Just Chatting: 30 Week Pregnancy Update - Gestational Diabetes, Hiring a Doulatog and PostPartum Doula, & Thoughts About My 2nd Birth
Show Notes

Lina is now in her third trimester at 30 or 31 weeks! She can never remember how many weeks she is but her due date is coming up on December 10. In this episode she catches up with her listeners about everything from house projects, to financial concerns, her pregnancy diagnosis and thoughts around birth. 

Talked about in this episode:

  • How Lina switched rooms for her office, giving Archie and Baby E a shared room
  • Umbilical hernia
  • Gestational diabetes and some of her go-to meals
  • A doctor's appointment gone wrong
  • The process of hiring a doula and why Lina decided on a doula/photographer (aka doulatog) 
  • Hiring a postpartum doula
  • Lina's thoughts around birth, the epidural, birth "elitism" around drug-free births, etc. 

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