Emmaleigh Travis of CQ Photography shares the fantastic pictures she took of this loving family’s water birth.
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Natural Birth: Mama’s Version (Papa’s posted yesterday!)
Yesterday, we shared Janna’s husband’s story of the birth of their son, Ethan. Today, you can read Janna’s own experience of it – and what it was like to have her husband’s support. “My water started to break around 9am. It trickled out now and then. The baby’s head was low so he blocked a lot of it from escaping.…
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Natural Birth: Papa’s Version (Mama’s tomorrow!)
This birth story comes from two angles. Today, we share papa’s version of the events. Check back tomorrow to read it from mama’s perspective – and find out just what she was doing with the midwife while her hubby cleaned the car. “Janna came out of the bedroom at 9am. Saying she thought that her water broke but wasn’t sure. …
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Positive and Powerful Birth, Support Makes the Difference
Sailor is my 4th daughter (Harper is 6, London is 5 and Dempsey is 3) and I can honestly say it was the first pregnancy I was scared of, I used to be the one trying to calm friends fears. This time my fear was real and it consumed me. I’d suffered miscarriages before and a PPH with Dempsey so…
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Welcome Caio {Costa Rica Water Birth}
Hello January, thank you so much for your blog and Facebook page – you are doing such important work. My son Caio was born at home in Sept 2011 in Costa Rica, this is our story. I would be honored if you would like to share it on your blog. I will include some photos that you are welcome to…
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My Battle With Hyperemesis Gravidarum
I sit here after my son’s second birthday party with Cars cups, plates and wrapping paper all over my house. Looking over I can see pure joy in my half naked two year old sons eyes and I feel as though it is time to write his survival story down. This is not necessarily a birth story – but the…
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A Story Of Three Births {A Hospital Induction, A Homebirth, And A Birth Centre Waterbirth}
Thank you Suzi, for sharing your three birth stories with us. Your journey is inspirational! – BWF Team Birth #1 I’m ashamed to admit this, but when I started having babies back when I was in my early 20’s, I was completely out of touch with my body. I wasn’t planning to have a baby, I was still young and…
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Mama Monitors Her Own Pitocin {Hospital Birth at 42 Weeks}
Kat L shares this beautiful birth story with us. The gown she wears is from Pretty Pushers: cute (and disposable!) alternatives to regular hospital gowns, and a BWF sponsor. My darling husband found a local childbirth educator who offered a 12 week class that was her own blend of Brio and Bradley. We went ahead and registered even though we…
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Part 3: Little Poppet’s Birth {Home Birth After Birth Trauma}
Our Third Birth, Second Homebirth: Welcoming our Third Daughter – story from Clare Part 1 is here (trigger warning traumatic birth). Part 2 here. I thought that by way of telling our birth journey of our third little poppet that I would start with a journey that began it all… Palm trees, clear and glorious blue skies and more delicious…