At the advice of my doula, I’m writing down the story of my first child’s birth. It’s been four and a half weeks since the most precious gift I ever received entered the world, and the details are already starting to get a bit fuzzy, so I know it’s time to write before they leave me completely. It was the…
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Home Birth Story with Graphic Crowning Pictures; Told by Dad.
Birth Story of Gordon Amber started having rushes on Thursday night, April 21st 2011 at about 36 weeks gestation. They were very mild and not timeable, yet stronger than her usual Braxton-Hicks. They eased off a bit by Friday morning, but regained strength around 11 am. At this point I called Amber to check on things and she informed me…
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Birth Announcement: HBAC, Pushed 6 Hours!
Julie sent in the following announcement. Just lovely. “I had my HBAC on 13 December and gave birth to our son, Kanoa Wolf, in the loving familiarity of our own home. it was not an easy birth as I pushed for 6 hours! but i did it; my midwives were ANGELIC, my husband was a rock, and my baby stayed…
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An Unconvential Birth Story: Water Leaking, Malposition, Chiropractic and Rebozo
I didn’t think it would take me this long to write about our journey of labor in bring Logan into the world. I really envisioned myself being so jazzed to write about it that I’d type it up that same night so I’d remember every detail… like I would forget something. I didn’t anticipate not even being able to put…
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Birth Picture of Baby with Cord Still Attached
It goes overlooked (or is not discussed) that there is another stage of labor/birth. Once baby is born, and all fingers and toes are counted, the placenta still needs to be birthed. Here is a picture of that time between the birth of the baby and the birth of the placenta, which is also referred to as the 3rd stage…
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A Healing, Positive and Empowering Hospital Birth with Pictures
My birth journey began prior to even conceiving our daughter. My husband and I have a beautiful son who was born in 2006 and I thought his birth was wonderful with the exception of my water breaking at 34 weeks and labor started shortly after. I had an epidural and only felt about a hour of pain. I walked away…
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VBAC: “I’M NOT BROKEN!!!”
“I delivered my second daughter on December 18, my due date and her older sister’s second birthday! We started the birth at home and was planning on delivering there, but complications in pushing took landed me in the hospital. Thanks to the ride there, I was able to have the VBAC I wanted – six pushes and she was on…
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Home Birth After 2 Cesareans (HBA2C), Baby Born in the Caul
Angus’ Birth Story by Jenna Roberts Home birth after two C-sections 9th of October 2011 3.95 kilos Lucas My first son was born via planned C-section a day before his EDD. I developed pre-eclampisa and he was posterior. I didn’t know at the time that both of these issues did not make a c-section necessary, so I happily agreed. His…
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When Patience in a Home Birth Pays Off…
“I just wanted to thank all of you for the support and encouragement you gave be here! I had a wonderful home birth and was so glad I choose not to go to the hospital. 🙂 I had back labor, ‘failure to progress’, and a ‘too large’ malpositioned baby. So if I had not chosen home birth it would have…