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Calm and Beautiful Birth Center Birth
Our Journey Begins From almost the moment I saw the two lines on the test telling me I was positively pregnant I knew I would make the very best of the coming months and my baby’s birth. In fact, the birth story of Heidi may as well begin her older brother’s ended. Gavin’s birth (minus the epidural and plus one doula), was rather standard for today’s…
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The New Mother Magazine Giveaway
The Mother magazine supports your conscious parenting journey into integrated optimal health and well-being from pre-conception to organic death. Conscious, connected parenting with an emphasis on personal responsibility. The Mother magazine was founded in 2002 and is read in more than forty countries around the world. They have a publishing house in the UK and one in the USA. They aim…
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Home Birth Story and Post Partum Reflection
Written by Rina on July 8th, 2011. Having the knowledge that I would give birth at home, with my midwife Nancy, assisting midwife Noel and doula Machelle, was a huge comfort to me. It was such a relief to know I would be doing the hard work of labor in familiar surroundings and recovering without interruptions from nurses and visitors.…
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Home Birth After 2 Cesareans -“My Body Was Not Broken!”
I don’t know when to say it really started so I’ll just start with Monday. Monday my Braxton Hicks contractions were a little stronger than normal. I went to my midwife appointment and everything was great, I measured 38 weeks which was no surprise because I’ve measured small this entire pregnancy. Monday night around 1am my contractions woke me up.…
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A Family-Centered Cesarean Birth Plan
One of our BWF moms was kind enough to share her cesarean birth plan with us! Sometimes, due to the fast and surgical nature of a cesarean, many doctors and hospitals forget to include the family, and especially the mother, in the birth. A cesarean is a birth, and needs to be treated as one – this includes the creation…
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A Father’s Perspective – The Journey from Hospital to Home
Many women have questions about how to approach their partner about natural birth, and especially out-of-hospital/home birth. I don’t ever remember being worried about convincing my husband – but then again, my feisty side comes out pretty often (and I don’t let go of an idea once it is in my head). It was a process however, moving my husband’s…
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A Mother’s Intuitive Choice to Have a Cesarean at 42 1/2 Weeks
I’m so excited to share these photos with the world! This is my 3rd child and 3rd c-section. My other births were full of fear as the first was a c-section because of failure to progress, the 2nd was a repeat c-section (because I didn’t know any better) and then this birth – which was not fearful, at all. I…
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Cesarean Birth Matters
You know, I have see this picture of an apple shredded up and the statement about how only a healthy baby matters. It’s making the point that it’s not OK when people say that your birth and your body don’t matter. I AGREE with that statement. Birth DOES matter. HOWEVER, I completely disagree with the picture (related to cesarean birth…