Evelyn’s IVF and Birth Story: Navigating Pressure, Intuition, and Finding Her Voice

Evelyn Houder joins host Ciarra Morgan to share her profound journey through the pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery of her first child. She discusses the struggles she faced in conceiving, her experience with IVF, and the choices she made regarding her birth plan. Evelyn reflects on the emotional and physical challenges of labor, the impact of medical interventions, and the feelings of defeat and anger she experienced during her C-section. She emphasizes the importance of listening to one's intuition and the need for a supportive birth environment. The conversation also touches on cultural perceptions of birth stories and the need to normalize positive birth experiences. Don’t miss the stories of her other two births in a future episode!

For many years, Evelyn lived in LA and SF, CA as a dancer, actor and on-camera talent, turned media producer. She drastically changed course when she decided to take on the role of a lifetime as a mama and eventually move to the amazing state of Texas with her family.

She is a full-time wife and Mom to her three children, ages; 8, 5 and 4. Evelyn proudly boasts the title of "Dance mom" to her first born.

She uses any opportunity she can get to educate those around her about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and educated nutritional or environmental choices, despite being an outlier at times in her particular position.

She balances her time dabbling in lifelong passions such as dance and writing, while supporting her family in all their many endeavors.

She loves a good karaoke or dance party but has far too few of them.

You can connect with her on IG at @‌Evievolving where you will mostly find family or dance-mom content and the occasional cooking or nutritional tip mixed in with an unpopular opinion at times. She'd love for you to say hello no matter what!

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