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Bree: Two Hospital Births in Geneva, Building Your Support Team Before You Need It, a Husband’s Cancer Diagnosis in Pregnancy, and Finding Courage
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“Do I want to have regrets just because I’m not able to face my fear?” Bree takes us through her two births, the Accompagnement Global midwife program at HUG she used in her first birth, Clinique des Grangettes in her second, and the choice to have a second baby after a hard postpartum. When her husband is diagnosed with cancer early in her second pregnancy pregnancy, the support she had built becomes her lifeline. This episode is honest, funny (at times) and hopeful (a lot of the time).
Bree's Resources:
1st pregnancy: Accompagnement Global at HUG (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève)
2nd pregnancy : Clinique des Grangettes (Hirslanden Group), Chêne-Bougeries (Canton Geneva)
Bree's resources:
- Registering the 1st hour of life of your baby. Put the “Dictaphone” app on and forgot about it . (Also helping the coparent to be fully focus on what is happening and not “take pictures/videos”)
- For breastfeeding: La LecheLeague
- For similar podcast on maternity (in French): Bliss stories
- For postpartum community (in French): Fabuleuses au foyer
To start with, you can subscribe to a free email, every day at 6 AM to motivates you, inspires you as a mom: le mail du matin
- For sanity, helping to “take nap” when you’re hypervigilant: yoga nidra sessions or guided meditation.
- Also for sanity, when you know you’re dysregulated, this free app for cardiac coherence Respirelax+ (Google) Respirelax+ (Apple)
Questions Answered in this Episode:
What is the Accompagnement Global at HUG in Geneva?
It is a program at the Geneva University Hospital where a small group of midwives follows you from pregnancy through birth and postpartum. You get to know them beforehand, and one of them is always on duty at the hospital, so you give birth with someone you already know.
Can you choose where to give birth in Geneva?
Yes. Bree describes three options: the birth center, the university hospital (HUG), or a private clinic. She chose the HUG program for her first birth and Clinique des Grangettes for her second.
Is it normal to lose weight during pregnancy?
It can happen, especially with severe first-trimester nausea. Bree lost 5 kg early in her first pregnancy while the baby develop