The story of my natural birth with my second daughter Emma is one that I think of as a challenge and one of hard work. After Emma was born I had over-analyzed our birthing experience and had even sat with my doctor to go over all of the points that I found did not work, or made the experience difficult.…
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Supporting Women in All Birthing Choices
It has taken me about a year and a half of blogging to get to a place that I feel I am really doing this and that others see it too. I’ve always had this vision…to passionately share my views about childbirth and inform woman they have choices in how they birth, but not alienate anyone. You have a few…
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Midwife’s Own Planned Unassisted Homebirth!
I believe that every pregnancy and birth teaches us something as women that transforms us into the mothers that our children need us to be. My entire experience of “Sunshine’s” pregnancy and birth was one of learning to trust in my body, my instincts, and my relationship with my husband. My hubby (B) and I were really enjoying parenting our…
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A Healing Home Birth
I had a traumatic hospital birth with my son Isaac, so before I even got pregnant again, my husband Chad and I had decided we wanted a home birth for our next child. Miriam’s birth was amazing and perfect. I could not have asked for a better experience and feel so blessed to have had the birth I did. What…
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Painless Natural Homebirth, Post Partum Transfer
The reason I want to share my story is because its positive, and I had a completely natural home birth. I feel like in today’s world, especially in America, that’s not a story you hear very often. I didn’t know a home birth was a possibility at first, because I didn’t know anyone who had had one, and I assumed…
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Birth Without … Me! {A Story of Adoption and Supplemental Nursing}
I had NO water breaking, NO contractions, NO C-section, NO vaginal delivery, absolutely NO pain whatsoever; and yet there had been a birth. My daughter was born and needed a tube-feeding right away. Only it’s not what you think. It wasn’t for medical reasons. She was perfectly healthy. My baby and I were meeting each other for the first time.…
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A Thanksgiving Day Unmedicated Hospital Birth
I have to preface this story by saying that I’m a wuss. Before labor started, I thought to myself, “I hope labor isn’t as painful as stubbing my toe.” We woke up on Thanksgiving, both feeling really rested from a full night of sleep and watched some of the Thanksgiving day parade on T.V.. I told your Poppa that I…
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Gentle Beginnings {Boone’s Birth Story}
Hi there! I wanted to share my amazing Birth Center Water Birth with ya’ll. Your website was an amazing inspiration when I was preparing for my natural birth. I felt empowered reading all of the stories! I’m hoping my story will do the same for other women preparing for a natural birth. Thank you for all that you do! -Brooke…
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Helpful Nurses, Birth Tub, Yoga Ball and a Birthing Bar…A Great Hospital Birth!
Friday May 11, 2012, I felt extremely exhausted. I decided to go to bed at about 9pm only to wake up two hours later when my husband, Kirk, crawled into bed with me. My back was hurting more than normal and I couldn’t get comfortable enough to fall back asleep so I got up. For the next few hours I…