I love having the opportunity to off-set shows like Baby Story or The Doctors by showing what birth really can be! Thanks to so many of the BWF mothers for your willingness in sharing your stories, experiences and pictures. ~Mrs. BWF
A BWF mama sent this picture in…
“I’m SO proud of this pic of crowning on the toilet. The goo on my belly is from the doppler which monitored baby’s heart rate. Oh my. I love the tattoo, and I also love that I’m holding the hand of one of my midwives, and the time on her watch is showing. 4:18am, and my son was born in the birth pool at 4:23am. After crowning, I crab-walked to the pool to deliver.”
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CRAB WALKED! AMAZING!! Thank you for sharing..
Took the words right out out of my head!
Breathtaking!!!
I LOVE this photo!
Thanks to the Mum for sharing and thanks so much for your wonderful page Mrs BWF!
Glad there are mamas who can labor on the toilet and get comfort from it, I was ONLY comfortable in the bath on my side the entire time right up until I needed to push, hit the squatting position and three pushes later there was my girl. Tried the birth ball, tried the toilet, nothing worked except the tub. I couldn’t keep warm which made me tense so I think that’s why only the tub worked.
Good job Mama, totally impressed with the crab walk!!!!
Wow…just wow!!!!
Beautiful.
Wow! Our bodies are amazing! Good job mama!
Go mama! Thanks for sharing this beautiful photo!
LOVE this photo! Now I know why, when I was kinda freaking that our baby would fall into the toilet, that my husband said “yeah honey, don’t worry that’s not really an option” my son was born while I was still on the “throne” a few minutes later and about 15 minutes before the first of our midwives arrived… she of course wasn’t the one with the midwives kit so when asked if we had any sissors handy that she could sterilize to cut the cord I said “yeah, I have some shears in that drawer right there” so one of the very few momentos of our first homebirth (after 3 hospital births) are the hair cutting shears that were used to cut baby #4′s cord – a proud day for all home birthing hair dressers
So strange to see it from this angle and birthing position…I always felt like crowning happened a lot lower (closer to my bum…) then again, I never actually saw it, just felt it. I wonder if it’s the positioning of being on the toilet? For both of mine, I was on my knees, leaning over a birthing ball. I don’t know that I would have been able to sit up so straight!!
I love birth photos that show the real deal:)
The way it should be!!
Amazing!!!
Simply amazing!!
My second daughter was born at 4:23am (11/11/11)!!! LOVE this picture!! I’d like to send one in of my husband catching our baby on the couch!
Followed my instincts while labouring at home and felt most natural sitting on the loo. My husband was worried that the baby would be born down the toilet so he dragged me away but I just went downstairs and sat on the loo there where he pulled me away again so I when back upstairs and sat on the loo in the master bathroom (repeated this manoeuvre 2 more times). Gave birth on all fours just 10 minutes after the midwife arrived. Only afterwards did I read that this position (of sitting on the toilet, knees up) is recommended by NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence in the UK) and so is walking up and down stairs. Might invest in a birthing stool next time just to save my husbands blood pressure. Thanks for sharing.