I just adore this mama. Brianna wanted a VBAC so bad and was willing to work with the hospital to have one. As you read through her birth story, she made choices that felt right at the time, but realized had outcomes she did not like. It’s great she shares this as other women can learn from her experience. I…
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A Simple Home Birth After 2 Cesareans
Silas’s birth story. Born April 12th, 2010 at 42 weeks 2 days. A VBA2C. On Saturday, April 10th (42 weeks exactly), I started having contractions around 20 minutes apart but they were not strong or painful. By that night they were 10 to 15 minutes apart, but still not feeling like labor. I went to bed and slept through the…
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A Necessary Cesarean by Mother’s Instincts
This mama is awesome! I met her on BWF when she posted about a rude comment someone made to her when she was pregnant. She was planning a natural hospital birth, but it didn’t go that way. She was informed and trusted her instincts. She knew she had to have a cesarean for her baby. I have met her and…
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Amazing Womanhood: A BWF Mama Birth Announcement
“I feel so fortunate to be part of this amazing womanhood. At 37 weeks pregnant something clicked in my head and I knew I would be going natural. I did so much research and really educated myself about everything. It felt amazing to learn so many things that I never knew when having my first child. I thought that having…
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Breech Babies Can Turn In Labor and/or Birth Vaginally
My First Breech Baby I’d like to start by explaining that I have had two breech babies. One planned home breech birth, and another planned home head down birth, only my breech baby turned last second as did my head down baby. The idea that any baby is stuck any one way baffles me. It’s their birth, it’s their way,…
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Birth Announcement: Primal and Ancient
I received this birth announcement/story via email. It is just so different than a lot of discussion and stories shared recently. It’s refreshing! Thank you Kacie for sharing and congratulations! ~Mrs. BWF I have been following you on Facebook for some time, and LOVE your page, your inspirations, and stories! I am a Chiropractor and Doula and just gave birth…
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A Home Water Birth Of A VBAC With Beautiful Pictures
Carmen Julia, born 12:15 AM, Thursday May 12, 2011 First, a little bit about the birth of Adrian in May 2009. I was planning a natural hospital birth with a CNM/OB practice. After an easy and complication-free pregnancy, I fell victim to my own ignorance and intervention-happy CNMs who failed to recognize that Adrian was OP. Labored 17 hours in…
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HBA4C: Homebirth After Four Cesareans!
*Having a home birth after multiple cesarean sections is not always safe. Please speak with your care providers for more information and support and to see if you are a good candidate for home birth, or vaginal birth in a hospital. VBAC’s are wonderful and can be done, but each woman, pregnancy and birth is different. ~Mrs. BWF Here’s my…
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HBAC: Home Birth After Cesarean
I recently posted about breech births being another variation of normal and shared breech birth stories. My focus the next few weeks will be VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean). I am a VBA2C mama myself and do not believe ‘once a c-section, always a c-section’. Every pregnancy and birth are different and our bodies are designed to birth. Most of…