The Birth of Lewis sent in by Lola. Photography by Marissa Froese. Do not copy or use without permission. I suppose I should write it all down before it turns into that beautiful hazy oxytocin laced memory that may or may not be accurate at all. To be honest, I don’t even know if I am the best person to…
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Birthday Celebration of a VBAC
So last night, I get this email from the beautiful Mae Burke, “Tomorrow is my friend, Chelsea’s, baby girl’s birthday. Her first was an unneccesarian, and the second was an HBAC. January, every single day she got on BWF, scowering the pages for info.” So I of course click on the links she sent me and literally got goosebumps from…
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Baby Blues vs. PPD
This is a guest blog post by Jennie from More Than Rubies. “Here is my blog post on my experience with PPD. After I posted it, I had a lot of moms tell me they didn’t even know they had PPD until they read it, and that it helped them to talk to their husbands. It’s brought a lot of…
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First a Hospital Breech Birth and then an Unplanned Unassisted Birth Story
Hospital Breech Birth My first pregnancy left me somewhat jaded and mistrusting of doctors and hospitals. My baby was breech. He had been breech since the 12 week ultrasound and had stayed that way since. I tried inversions, hot and cold packs, music on my lower abdomen and even handstands to get baby to flip. At 38 weeks he was…
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Beautiful Birth Story Told by 34 Gorgeous Pictures
Andie W. has been kind enough to share her sacred birth pictures with the BWF Community. Christie Lacy Photography did a wonderful job capturing the hard work, determination, faith and beauty of BIRTH… This may be my favorite… The shadow in the background is her belly cast… “This is a picture of my newborn, Canyon, in his belly cast. I…
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Video: Planned Homebirth Transfer to Gentle Cesarean
This is a birth video of still pictures and video footage. They start labor at home and transfer to the hospital. The cesarean birth pictures are amazing along with the footage of mom and baby having skin to skin time RIGHT after the surgery. I recommend that even if you are planning a home birth, be informed about he possibility…
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Pregnant Body Art
So gorgeous I had to share. I know I’ve been MIA lately, but Meagan sent this to me and I’m a sucker for ink and pregnancy, so combined it is stunning to me. She found it on Pinterest and we don’t know the source. Yes…stunning is the word…
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Post Dates Birth at the Farm
My Leap Day Birth Story at the Farm My daughter’s birth story begins right about where her brother’s leaves off, 2 1/2 years earlier. His birth took me about a year to process. If you’d asked me any earlier than that, I’d have told you that I loved everything about the experience (hospital birth with a CNM) and had no…
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Encapsulating Placenta for PPD…One Mother’s Experience
Sent in by Cynthia. “My son Joseph was born May 7th, 2011- and after a slight battle with the hospital, I was able to keep my placenta. Didn’t know why I wanted it, just knew I did and I would figure it all out later. I froze our placenta and honestly, pretty much forgot about it. Around 11 months post…