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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When Plans Change: Baby Born Vaginally Before Cesarean
Sadie’s story starts a few weeks before her birth. At 34 weeks I started to have the same symptoms of labor as I had with my first daughter, Peyton. I called my midwife and she told me to immediately go home from work and put me on bed rest temporarily for three days. Once I was home the contractions subsided…
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I Am Strong {Adri}
I am strong because I labored for 45 hours and pushed for 2.5 hours in the comfort of my own home with my husband and midwives, only to be transferred to the hospital because of a swollen cervix. I am strong because the doctors considered me a ‘trauma patient’ in need of a c-section, and I calmly declined asking for…
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The Birth of a Bus {Really}
This story is very personal to me. A little background as to why and then Charlie Rae’s story. I had heard about this bus on the Barefoot Birth facebook page but hadn’t read all of the details, and when I got to the bottom of this post, I gasped aloud! I KNOW HER! Well, actually I know her mom. I…
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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…
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Hospital Water Birth with a {Supportive} OB
I’d like to share a story that includes a birth story. I want to share with you the way that the right doctor can have influence. I will start by saying I didn’t have an OB, I didn’t have a midwife, I choose to use my family medicine general practitioner as my doctor. He was my grandma’s doctor, he is…
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Birth Story of Ace {Homebirth Transfer to Cesarean}
My birth story begins well before we even conceived Ace. My sisters both had cesareans for various reasons. I began to question everything about birth and I knew I wanted something better for myself. After all our research we decided a homebirth with a midwife would be best. We planned to give birth at my husband’s mother’s house because our…
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Baby Born Outside the Hospital ER Door {Rainbow Baby}
My birth story. Hi Girls….the dust has settled, I’m out of the newborn fog and am so excited to share my birth story with you all. Miss Elliette Mae dramatically entered the world at 10:37PM on 1/3/13. She weighed 8pounds, 8.5 ounces and was 20 inches long. The morning of the 3rd I woke up and had an intense urge…