{Editor’s Note: This story comes to me from a friend. This was her 5th baby – and 5th boy. She also blessed another family by being a surrogate for twin girls. Her journey comes to us not only from a place of perspective – having given birth in several ways and places – but also from a place of emotional…
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Breech Homebirth {17 Days Past Due Date}
“At 38 weeks pregnant I hired independent midwives to help me have a physiological breech birth at home because the NHS were not supportive of my choices and wanted me to opt for a caesarean. Four weeks and 3 days later my beautiful baby daughter was born at home in record fast timing and it was the most natural and…
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From The Darkness Into The Light {A Story Of Postnatal Depression}
Here is my PND story. Well, the early days. If someone had sat me down and told me that the days and weeks following the birth of my baby were going to be harder than giving birth to a 4210g baby at home, drug-free, I’d have told them they were crazy and sent them on their way! We made it though…
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Home Waterbirth After Ovarian Cancer
Thank you Jess for your beautiful story! I had my first child in October of 2011 at home surrounded by my family and midwife. It was 18 hours of hard labor with 3 hours of pushing before he decided to finally show himself to us! He was perfect! 22 inches and 8.14 lbs!! It was probably the craziest, hardest, and…
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“Welcome Earthside, Baby” {an Australian homebirth}
I spent my last week at work, my 37th week of pregnancy, revelling in the gentle tightening of my belly from Braxton Hicks and although I was so ready to meet you, I was hopeful that I would have a week of maternity leave to finish preparing our home before you arrived. Of course, it turned out to be many…
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Elle’s Birth Story {Awesome Caul Homebirth}
[My first birth was posted here, and now I’ve completed my next birth story!] Nana arrived on our doorstep when I was 38 weeks pregnant. She wasn’t missing this birth like she did the first! Her plan was to stay for 2 weeks after the baby was born to help with our toddler (18mo) and the transition into life with…
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Breech Twin Birth Without Fear
This is Mallie, a woman who truly birthed without fear. She moved up from Florida to North Carolina in order to give birth the way she thought best, safely in a friends’ home, naturally with plenty of love and support surrounding her. Both of Mallie’s twins were born breech after a very quick labor. The birth was attended by a…
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River Violet’s Birth Story: HBA2C
For the past nine months Raul and I have been preparing for a HBA2C (home birth after 2 c-sections). We read all the books (Ina May was my favourite), watched all the documentaries and took a Bradley class to educate ourselves on the process. We were well versed in the “mechanics” of labour, but there was a mental/emotional component that…
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The Moment {Planned HBA2C, Unplanned Unassisted}
You posted a photo of “the moment” and it reminded me so much of my own. Especially because that moment is something I had waited for through 2 attempted vaginal births that turned into c-sections… I was told I was broken. I was told it would never happen and I couldn’t try. I KNEW BETTER! On April 2011, at 42w2d,…