Part 2 of 3. You can read part one of Clare’s journey (trigger warning: traumatic birth) here. ‘What do you mean there’s no sour cream??!’ The place was a small country town called Wagga Wagga (yes, for all the non-Australian readers there is a town actually called that haha!) the date was the 27th of December and I surprised myself…
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Plus Sized Unassisted Home Water Birth
The last weeks of my pregnancy were kind of crazy. After a perfectly happy and uneventful pregnancy it majorly sucked to have to spend the last weeks trying to arrange a care provider after my midwife DROPPED ME for refusing an ultrasound to “check for IUGR” when there was no reason to suspect that the baby was having issues. At…
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Home Water Birth to 5th Boy {A Beautiful Journey}
{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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Natural Birth of First Child
Just wanted to share this picture and the story of my first childbirth experience. This is a picture taken unprofessionally by my sister after the water birth of my daughter 8 months ago. My story is rather long but I am hoping my story shows women that they can do it too! The pain started around 5:30 am on the…
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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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Empowering Water Birth {2 Hour Labor, 9 lbs 11 oz}
For months prior to the birth I had been spending time with friends talking all about birth and praying about our own and how we desired it to be. My birth with Savanna was very sudden due to my placenta detaching from the uterus wall and I had to be connected to a drip and monitored during the whole thing.…
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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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Quick Labor and Accidental Freebirth
I had my daughter in a hospital. It was a horrible experience and I never want to have another baby in a hospital again unless I HAVE to. Before we even conceived our next baby, we interviewed midwives and picked one out. We were planning a home birth. I had a normal pregnancy. No issues at all. Except, from 37…
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A Powerful HBAC
I cannot begin Bella’s birth story without first mentioning the birth of her big brother, Adam. You see the plan was for Bella to be born via home birth after cesarean section (HBAC). Adam was born in August of 2010 via c-section after a 3 day long induction due to high blood pressure at 39 weeks. The labor was said…