When I was pregnant with Mini, I held a contest. BWF followers guessed the sex, date, time and weight of the baby. So many of you guessed February. Oh how that would have been wonderful! Mini: Boy March 11th (at 43 weeks, 3 days) At 11:30 pm Weight about 9 lbs The top 3 winners are… #1. LaDonna Boy March…
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A Magical Birth
This is one of the best birth stories I have read in some time. The absolute trust that Charlotte had was wonderful, but the rawness of it…how much she enjoyed it and wanted to be part of every moment of the birth of her son was captivating. ~January I guess it’s pretty unusual to have this sort of birth as…
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Waiting; Not Inducing
Mr. BWF had to call his boss to tell him I haven’t birthed yet and to keep him off the schedule for next week (told him that would happen). His boss asked, “So, is she getting induced?!” Mr. BWF said, “No, we do things naturally and let her body and baby go into labor on their own.” His boss wasn’t…
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Two Amazing Hospital VBAC’s!!!
This mama had 2 VBAC’s in the hospital with midwives. She shares both here. Enjoy! These are my birth stories for my 2 VBAC’s, I have three sons and my first was an ‘elective’ caeser due to him being breech. It left me with feelings of failure, which lead to breastfeeding failure and mild PPD. I then researched, researched, researched…
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22 Favorite Birth Quotes and Affirmations
“Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.” ~ Jane Weideman “When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.” ~Marie Mongan, Hypnobirthing ”If I don’t know my options, I don’t have any.” ~ Diana Korte “There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that…
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Blessed With Another Pregnancy
I am very blessed to be pregnant. Mr. BWF and I have conceived 5 children, all in the first month we stopped preventing. Every pregnancy has been different emotionally and physically. Every birth has been vastly different as well. You would think after a planned c-section, a homebirth transferred c-section, a traumatic hospital VBA2C and an empowering unassisted homebirth, that…
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The Birth of River Jeremiah: The Homebirth of a First Time Mama
When my water broke at 1:00 in the afternoon, just two days after my estimated due date, I was shocked. I prided myself in not being anxious for my son’s birthday to arrive; I knew it would happen. I knew stressing about it wouldn’t help. I kept in mind that first babies, on average, are born 8 days after their…
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5 Quotes to Remind You Not to Induce
“We can make a woman have contractions, but we don’t always succeed in forcing her body to release the baby and give birth. If we start a labor with chemicals, we may very well have to finish it with a surgeon’s scalpel.” – Gail Hart, Midwife “Inducing tends to create longer, more difficult, more painful births in general, and it…
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6 Questions to Determine the Right Support for Your Birth
One of the things I have learned in my experiences birthing (and I’ve had them all), is that the support you choose is extremely important. Hiring an OB because everyone at church uses him or picking a midwife just because she is a midwife, is simply not good enough. A woman should evaluate her personality, pregnancy and needs. She may…