Molly shares the story of her unmedicated birth at a freestanding birth center, after a previous first trimester pregnancy loss. In Molly's birth story, she had a "retained placenta" and because of some risk factors that she had during pregnancy with anemia, they took more of an active management approach to delivering her placenta in order to minimize the amount of postpartum bleeding that she was having so that she didn't have complications associated with her anemia.

In this episode:

• What is a freestanding birth center? (1:14)
• Criteria for qualifying to deliver at a freestanding birth center (1:49)
• Molly's first trimester loss (5:06)
• Why Molly chose the freestanding birth center (6:36)
• What did Molly do to prepare for her birth? (9:06)
• Complications of a retained placenta (23:08)
• The difference in postpartum care between the birth center midwives and an OB in a hospital setting (28:40)

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