A story as told by the birth photographer, Angela This is Jessica’s story, but also in some strange way, it became mine as well because I can honestly say it changed my views. As I type this, I’m assuming Jessica is cuddling her sweet baby boy – who she brought home a little over a week ago. Jessica decided to…
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The Birth of Henley {Hospital Birth}
The story of Henley Kay is a long one. The little girl who arrived on Tuesday January 29th at 4:21pm was expected sooner. Not knowing when my last period had started or ended, I had gone by what the doctor had told me at my first appointment and ultrasound. He had said I was twelve weeks. So we figured twenty…
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I am strong {Katie}
I am strong because at 12 weeks pregnant with my first child I chose to adopt my three year old niece and one year old nephew after tragically losing my best friend, my sister. I am strong because I managed to still work full time as an RN in the NICU while going through a huge loss, being pregnant, and…
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Pictures of Vaginal Breech Birth of Twins!
Here are 2 pictures of my daughter’s breech birth. I had a vaginal hospital birth of with twins, and my daughter (baby B) was breech. My doctor was incredible and patiently waited for her to do her thing, but she ended up needing a little assistance as she didn’t want to tuck her chin. I am so grateful that I…
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I Am Strong…Twins {Sarah}
I am strong because I achieved a natural birth of twin girls at 37 weeks, 5 days, in the OR of a hospital. My pregnancy was a shock, but I was thrilled that I would finally have the opportunity to have a home birth after two previous hospital births. When we discovered that it was twins, I learned it was…
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The Hopistal Birth of Iris
My pregnancy with Iris was much more different than her big brother, Dominic’s. I had morning sickness for the entire first trimester. I never vomited, which I’m grateful for, but I was nauseous all day. At 29 weeks, I started getting very crampy, almost like menstrual cramps. I called my OB and spoke to the triage nurse. She kept telling…
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Induced Hospital Birth After 5 years TTC
My name is Rebecca, I am 24 and my husband John and I tried to conceive for 5 years before our beautiful daughter Hannah Ruth Pender finally arrived 13 days late on the 10th January 2013 at 2.35pm after a 13 hour induced labour. From the moment I saw the very faint second line on the first of 7 (just to be sure) positive home pregnancy tests…
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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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Long Hospital Labour of a Posterior Baby {Pitcoin with no pain relief}
36 hours after arriving at the hospital, Jason Wayne Cheney was born. It’s taken me a year to finally write it, but here is our birth story… My name is Nancy and ‘birth without fear’ was my motto going into labor, since I had never been through it before and had no clue what to expect. I wanted a positive…