Allison O’s Story: Postpartum Hemorrhage, Emergency Hysterectomy, Surrogacy, Mom of Two

Each episode of The Sleep Sessions podcast features a different mom sharing her story of adapting to life and sleep after a new baby. The conversations cover topics such as birth stories, physical recovery, mental health, sleep, feeding, work/life balance, relationship changes and more in hopes of supporting women through the postpartum period. 

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On this weeks episode, Allison shares her heartbreaking, yet inspirational story that starts with a postpartum hemorrhage resulting in an emergency hysterectomy following the birth of her first son. Due to the events that occurred, Allison became unable to carry and birth another child and was forced the grieve her dream of doing so. She shares about this grieving process, breastfeeding, returning to work after her maternity leave, and struggling to connect with other women who were having "normal" motherhood experiences. Though she experienced tremendous trauma, Allison's story has a happy ending thanks to her sister stepping in to be a surrogate and carry her second son. 

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