A couple weeks ago I dropped my first podcast episode after having McKenna! I shared all about her grand arrival into the world. Today I released a second part to her birth story explaining the medical challenges that I faced directly leading up to and immediately following birth. Over the past four months I've shared some of what we've been going through on Instagram, but this episode was a longer form way to just throw everything into one place for those who are interested. Basically if you want to get up to speed on the Remicade, the postpartum preeclampsia, the staph infection of it all.... tune in. 

I debated not putting out this episode because I didn't even know where to start. Each of these issues was a separate experience that could have their own discussions around them (and maybe they will someday!). This really just touches the surface of each of these postpartum experiences. Hopefully this episode brings some awareness to some of these complications, but it will definitely serve as a way to get you up to speed on the postpartum journey up to this point. It's a good baseline before I begin more frequent updates. I think it was important to share these experiences because they were integral in a lot of what I have experienced postpartum, especially from a mental health perspective.
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Listen to the episode below or directly on Spotify or Apple.

On October 18th 2022 we welcomed our daughter McKenna Josephine into the world! After a rough pregnancy and some complications we were thrilled to finally have her safely in our arms. She was delivered via c-section at 37 weeks. After some hours in the NICU she was reunited with us and we have been loving on her ever since. 

After Maddox was born I shared his birth story via blog post. I wanted to do the same with McKenna (just this time in podcast form). Delivering Maddox was a lot more of a difficult and traumatic experience than delivering McKenna. Despite them both being c-sections they were incredibly different in a lot of ways that I share in her story. I thought it was important to highlight that such a positive birth experience can come after having such a scary one. 

If you have followed our journey on social media you probably know that both McKenna and I faced some challenges after she was born. I wanted to keep McKenna's birth story separate from the discussion all of those details so this episode really only focuses on her birth story. There will be a separate episode sharing the next part of our story. 

I hope you enjoy the story of our spunky, sweet, beautiful McKenna Josephine joining our family earth side.

Listen to the episode below or directly on Spotify or Apple.