81. Navy Spouse Alice's Thanksgiving Homebirth

In this episode of “Military Birth Talk,” Alice returns three months postpartum to share her second San Diego birth story. After a low-risk but exhausting pregnancy while parenting a toddler, she chose a planned home birth because the local TRICARE-accepting birth center had closed, and found supportive care with a midwife practice and a TRICARE-covered doula; her husband, active-duty Navy, was away for two months mid-pregnancy, and her mom flew from the UK near her due date to help with thei...