I just hope to help inspire someone to do a home birth. It is the most wonderful experience I wish every mother could experience! – Stephanie It all started on the due date, August 29, 2011. Brett and I went to our regular appointment with our midwife, Lisa, at noon. She checked blood pressure, heart rate, measurement, and position as usual…
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Birth Attended by Peggy Vincent – Home Birth of Megan
The Birth of Megan I wrote this 25 years ago, I have revised it some but these are my words of that very special day. The day of your birth was a warm Indian Summer day, October 3rd. Somehow I felt within me that you would be born that day…. I awoke feeling contractions, yet thought that this was just…
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Birth Photostory | Rebecca Colefax Photography
“This beautiful family of 5 just became a family of 6! Labour was very fast and extremely powerful – but mummy was strong, empowered and courageous. A wonderful inspiration to her daughter who was present throughout and was the best little birthing assistant I’ve ever seen. This birth was an amazing experience for me as a photographer for this was…
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Twyla’s Journey from the Stars {A Breech Home Birth}
December 10th. This nesting business is no joke. I feel like I’m about to sweep a hole through the tile floor. I could serve a 4 course meal in my bathroom, off my toilet even. At least up until the point I walked in and sat down to discover I had just lost my plug. I phone my midwife, Claudette.…
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“It was the single most empowering moment of my life!” {Frank Breech Homebirth In Water}
I was 24 years old and planning to have my first baby at home when I found out the baby was in a frank breech position. My wonderful midwife at the time obtained all the latest medical journals on breech birth so we could make an informed decision about the risks. After reading the data, we chose to go with…
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Simple Home Water Birth VBAC
Miranda’s birth story has to start with some background information and a bit of her big brother’s story. We had planned an all-natural, drug-free hospital birth and had taken Bradley Classes when I was pregnant with Dustin. Unfortunately, the hospital staff didn’t like how slow my labor progressed and coerced us into interventions we never wanted. Because of all this,…
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Quick Labor and Accidental Freebirth
I had my daughter in a hospital. It was a horrible experience and I never want to have another baby in a hospital again unless I HAVE to. Before we even conceived our next baby, we interviewed midwives and picked one out. We were planning a home birth. I had a normal pregnancy. No issues at all. Except, from 37…
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A Powerful HBAC
I cannot begin Bella’s birth story without first mentioning the birth of her big brother, Adam. You see the plan was for Bella to be born via home birth after cesarean section (HBAC). Adam was born in August of 2010 via c-section after a 3 day long induction due to high blood pressure at 39 weeks. The labor was said…
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‘More Faith, Less Fear’: An Unassisted HBAC
Lisa M. shares the story of her daughter Freya’s free birth. “This is a story of a beautiful birth – the birth of my gorgeous daughter Freya. Her birth had been planned for a long time… Pretty much since the day her older brother and I left the hospital after his very traumatic VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) birth, two…