Amy from Life With Soul shares the birth of her daughter Savannah Bronwyn, “…a terribly, terribly proud moment in my life when I took control of my body and family and did it my way. At home.” As she says, check out the slideshow and “Come back here and let me know if you made it without a hanky!” Click…
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A Surprisingly Quick Natural Birth
My little Rainbow baby is finally here and, between the chaos of the first few weeks and our soon-to-be relocation to Florida, things have been a whirlwind around here. No less a whirlwind than his birth though! From the beginning I decided to make this my most natural birth to date. I decided on no epidural, Pitocin, induction, or anything…
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I KNOW You Are Not Texting Right Now! {A Birth Story}
Aline’s birth story, it’s gonna be long, and I might go off on random ramblings so bear with me. On Wednesday, July 7th, we had an appointment with the midwife at the OB clinic. At that point, she expressed concern with me going very far past my due date since I have a heart condition. We went ahead and set an induction date, and hoped…
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The VBAC High
This is what a VBAC high looks like! Not just for mom, but dad as well. Accomplishing something that was fought so hard for. This pictures caputres the VBAC moment so well. Melissa Cate Photogarphy says, ” The first birth mama pushed 4 hours in the hospital on her back with an epidural, and even though she was getting fairly…
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VBAC in a Hotel
Our H(otel)BAC by Niki T. Joey’s birth story began 21 months before his actual birth, during the cesarean birth of our second child. She had presented with both hands first (double nuchal hand presentation) during an AROM. Of course hindsight is 20/20 and looking back I can see each domino that landed me in that operating room fall in slow…
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Young Mother Becomes Informed & Chooses Natural Water Birth
I was seventeen years old when I found out I was pregnant. My plan was to have a medicated birth at a hospital. My boyfriend, Drew’s older sister’s, had natural births themselves. They showed me the Infinity Birthing Center and they opened my eyes to so many options. The midwives and staff there educated me on everything that I was very ignorant…
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Hospital Water Birth? Yes Please!
We love when mamas have great hospital births! They do happen, ya know. Hannah with Fresh Love Birth Photography attended a beautiful hospital birth where mom gave birth in a wicked birth tub and she captured these… “This was mom’s first baby and the couple were so amazing towards each other the entire birth. She practically melted into his every touch…
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After 5 Weeks Bedrest, Baby is Born After Nurse’s Intuition
“I spent 5 long pregnant weeks in my local hospital bleeding until I hit 35weeks and 6 days. I was supposed to go home for the weekend, but a nurse refused to let me, because she had a bad feeling. Sure enough at 7.32 am the doctors had me signing forms and calling my parents and at 9.52am my daughter was…
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Oops…A Fast and Unplanned Unassisted Birth of 2nd Child
The birth of my daughter started at 11 am on a Monday morning. I was laying in bed as my 18 month old son played on the floor next to me. When I got out of bed I noticed that my water had broken. In my excitement I had asked my husband to hurry home. With my last child I had went…