“I’ve followed BWF since we were TTC our second child in the fall of 2010. He’s here and now his story is too. It was a very grounding experience for me. I feel every woman should have the joyful birth I did.” ~Tonia Dhev means divine, or “from God.” It’s short for the Sanskrit name Devdon, which means “gift from…
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Another Beautiful Photo Removed From Facebook!
Ahhhh!!! Don’t look! Seriously though, a picture removed AGAIN and this time from our CLOSED group! It is a BIRTH group. Regardless, I can post it on my blog and share with thousands more. The picture itself is gorgeous. The shadow of the pregnant mother and then with her precious baby. It is a stunning representation of pregnancy and babies!…
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The Home Birth of Landon Alexander
This is a birth post. I’m a birth junkie and birth doesn’t gross me out at all, so take that into consideration before reading this post if you’re not into that sort of stuff. I’m not censoring this post. I love birth and I think it should be celebrated and documented and shared. I’m so anxious to get this written…
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What Does a VBAC Look Like?
‘K’ sent me her “I Am Not Broken‘ VBAC picture which I shared here. She recently sent in more ‘graphic’ photos to show what a VBAC can really look like. Having birthed three babies vaginally after 2 cesareans myself, I know what an amazing feeling this moment is. A VBAC birth is… Bloody! Squishy! The most amazing experience of your…
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A Beautiful High Risk Birth
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh I awoke early Thursday morning, January 19th, with bright red bleeding, a sign I had grown fearful of during the last seven weeks of my pregnancy, but responded to with a…
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A Simple Home Water Birth
This is the story of my third daughter’s birth. My older two are 4 and 2, both of which were home births but not water births. This time the midwives (same ones as with my older daughters) gave the option of renting birth pools so I was excited to try for a water birth this time. I was 40 weeks…
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Hospital Birth at 37 weeks, Induction, High Blood Pressure
I had a very easy, wonderful hospital birth experience. I wasn’t feeling well one day and went in to my doctor the day before my scheduled appointment. They took my blood pressure and it was 90/140. He made me lay down for a half hour and drink some water. When he checked again, my bp was 92/145. He checked me…
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Two Mamas and a Baby…Little Lady’s Birth Story
Little Lady’s Birth Story, from Sandy & Jane Written November 28th, 2011 Two weeks ago, on the 14th, our Little Lady was born. She is the most beautiful, precious little thing I could imagine. I mean… you read about it, or maybe see other folks with their kids… but she’s our first baby, and that feeling when I hold her……
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Accidental Unassisted VBAC after an Inverted T Incision
Our first child, Emelie, was born January 19, 2007. It was an amazing experience, the best experience of my life up to that point. It was fairly quick and easy for a first baby, lasting only about 5 hours, but it was pretty intense. In the end, though it was awesome, there were a few things I wasn’t completely happy…