Unplanned home VBAC by Audrey With my first daughter, I had a long labour which ended in too much hospital intervention and an eventual emergency cesarean. Throughout my second pregnancy I was fixated by my previous labour. I was very frightened of being interfered with again. My midwife was amazing, she gave me her contact number and said to call…
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A Long Hospital VBAC: A Learning Experience
I just adore this mama. Brianna wanted a VBAC so bad and was willing to work with the hospital to have one. As you read through her birth story, she made choices that felt right at the time, but realized had outcomes she did not like. It’s great she shares this as other women can learn from her experience. I…
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A Simple Home Birth After 2 Cesareans
Silas’s birth story. Born April 12th, 2010 at 42 weeks 2 days. A VBA2C. On Saturday, April 10th (42 weeks exactly), I started having contractions around 20 minutes apart but they were not strong or painful. By that night they were 10 to 15 minutes apart, but still not feeling like labor. I went to bed and slept through the…
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A Home Water Birth Of A VBAC With Beautiful Pictures
Carmen Julia, born 12:15 AM, Thursday May 12, 2011 First, a little bit about the birth of Adrian in May 2009. I was planning a natural hospital birth with a CNM/OB practice. After an easy and complication-free pregnancy, I fell victim to my own ignorance and intervention-happy CNMs who failed to recognize that Adrian was OP. Labored 17 hours in…
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HBA4C: Homebirth After Four Cesareans!
*Having a home birth after multiple cesarean sections is not always safe. Please speak with your care providers for more information and support and to see if you are a good candidate for home birth, or vaginal birth in a hospital. VBAC’s are wonderful and can be done, but each woman, pregnancy and birth is different. ~Mrs. BWF Here’s my…
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HBAC: Home Birth After Cesarean
I recently posted about breech births being another variation of normal and shared breech birth stories. My focus the next few weeks will be VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean). I am a VBA2C mama myself and do not believe ‘once a c-section, always a c-section’. Every pregnancy and birth are different and our bodies are designed to birth. Most of…
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Home Birth After 3 Cesareans (HBA3C)
When I asked for breastfeeding pictures, this one that caught my attention. Not because of the picture, but the story that goes with it. “This is Joshua Christian 20 min after he was born and the first time he nursed. He was my first HBA3C. My prior c-sections were just because I was scared into them due to big babies.…
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Face Presentation Vaginal Birth
Babies really can come out different ways. My last baby was birthed facing my left thigh. Yes, I birthed him sideways, shoulders and all. A friend of mine recently gave birth to her sweet baby girl. Not only did she have a successful VBAC in the hospital, but her daughter was birthed with a face presentation (yes, her face was…
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My Fourth Baby, Second VBA2C and First Unassisted Birth
This is not my most recent birth. I am still processing and writing that one. This is my last birth. My fourth child, my second VBA2C and my first unassisted childbirth. Here is the birth story as I wrote it after that amazing, empowering and healing birth! Everyone has been asking for our birth story. I was so excited that…