I recently asked on our BWF page if people thought there was division in the birth community (moms and professionals) or unity. Everyone answered division on some level. One woman, an OB, asked, “What are we fighting for?” Good question. This is not referring to women who are fighting to have a voice or for their rights. This is about…
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Mom Helps ‘Catch’ Her Own Baby in a Hospital Birth
“My first two children were born at 36 weeks and went straight to the NICU. My firstborn was a c-section and my second was a VBAC with an epidural. I blame his NICU stay on complications from the late epidural. My third son was born this past September and I desperately wanted nothing more than a wet baby on my…
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Processing 2 Cesarean Sections: A Twin Cesarean Birth and A C-section Due to Placental Abruption
I know people hear a lot of negative birth stories that are over inflated. I’m not sure why people do this. I try to refrain from sharing these two experiences with expectant moms, because I don’t want to instill any fears or insecurities in them. I had a very normal, uneventful pregnancy with the twins until 35 weeks. April 27th…
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Normalizing Twin Births; Twins Born Naturally in the Hospital
*A few parts of Jess’ birth footage were used in part 3 of More Business of Being Born, so if you’ve seen that, you’ll see her! Nothing about my pregnancy went according to plan. After nearly 13 years of marriage and completion of my clinical social work graduate program, we decided it was finally time for us to start thinking…
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When Annie Came Into the World: A Dad’s Perspective Birth Story
I was socializing downstairs over at Rachel’s aunt’s house when Kris yelled downstairs, “Tucker… Rachel’s water broke”. Not believing her statement because, for one, she said it nonchalantly, and second, it was a week before the due date, I yell back “OK Kris”. I share a chuckle with Ryan who was under the same impression as I about the legitimacy…
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A VBA2C Home Birth Transfer to Hospital, Waters Broken and Stall in Labor
There are so many things I want to write about when it comes to my pregnancy and birth. I think a lot of these things are keeping me from finishing my birth story. I created a document for it the night Maris was born, and I’ve been picking away at it for the past almost 6 weeks, but it just…
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Home Birth Transfer, Forceps Needed, Never Gave Up
My baby dropped when I was 35 weeks pregnant. The intense sensation of him/her wiggling head on my cervix made me think I’d go into labor at any minute. But we were planning a home birth, and that wouldn’t be possible if we didn’t make it to 37 weeks. So I spent my days taking it easy and finding time…
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A VBA3C: Fused Sacrum, Needed Interventions and Pure Determination
The birth of Ava Sophia…A VBA3C You know that definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Yep, that one. I’ve gone over that saying so many times in my head. Am I crazy? Why do I even want this so badly? Am I willing to go through hours and hours, maybe days, of…
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A Woman’s Mission to Normalize Birth in the Hospital: A Birth Story
Where and how we brought Zoe into this world stemmed from our previous birth experiences, so here’s a quick summary of the births of Aubrey, Lauren and Sasha: birth #1, 2002, Virginia – induced at 36w4d because of suspected IUGR. A labor full of interventions (just about everything except a c-sec), and, as it turns out, I grow small babies.…