Rachel’s First Birth: Unmedicated hospital birth; Empowered and assertive parents stand up for birth plan

September 20, 2012
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At the beginning of my pregnancy, I knew nothing of pregnancy or childbirth. I never took that class in high school where you watchThe Miracle of Life, never witnessed a real life birth, even one on T.V. (I’ve always had a strong aversion to TLC’s A Baby Story) or Youtube. I thought that I didn’t need to [...]

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Phoebe’s second birth; Quick labor, smooth hospital birth, no epidural.

September 19, 2012
phoebeanderson

I opted to take a hypnobirthing class for my second child because I didn’t really want to have an epidural again after having one with my first child, Hailey.  Hailey’s labor was a slow, twenty hour ordeal because she came sunny-side up and resisted bowing her head down so that she could come out crown [...]

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Rachel’s First Birth: Unmedicated Hospital Birth at 42 weeks; Mama sticks to birth plan despite special circumstances

September 9, 2012
babysawyer

They say only about 5% of babies are actually born on their due date. Unfortunately, I was NOT part of that 5%.  March 3rd came and went…then a week, then another.   I tried every trick in the book to start labor but nothing seemed to work.  Sawyer was on his own time table and not [...]

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Aja’s third birth: Escapes induction; completely unmedicated hospital birth; breathes baby out

September 9, 2012
ajadibb

I was pregnant with my third baby.  After two inductions with pitocin & epidural’s I was very interested in other ways to deliver this baby.  My husband Mike & I had seen, ” The Business of Being Born” and we’re shocked and grateful our two older daughters had come safely into the world even with [...]

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From The Depths of My Sorrow, Came My Morning Sun: Rebecca’s Birth

August 2, 2012
rebeccawhite

This is a powerful story from a mama who wasn’t able to take my classes, but prepared diligently on her own with the book and CDs. She truly had a birth without fear, even during some complications which her skilled midwives handled beautifully. This story is a perfect example of being “prepared to calmly accept [...]

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Raquel’s First Birth: Three hours of labor; home water birth; mom receives her own baby

July 31, 2012
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My husband Cory and I Took Laura Curtis’ Hypnobirthing class around 12 weeks into pregnancy, we then took a second hypnotherapy birth class through my aunt Debbie Wagner at 34 weeks. It was great getting information through my whole pregnancy and I am so glad I started that early. It gave me a huge head [...]

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Stevie’s First Birth: Thought labor was gas pains until 9 cm!

July 30, 2012
BirthofGalileu

I lay on the couch waiting for Luis to come home from work. Being 9 months pregnant, I was a bit tired. I started noticing some gas pains so I decided I would practice my surge breathing through them. I cannot explain what made me do that but I think it had something to do [...]

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Kali’s First Birth

July 28, 2012
kalisadler

It was Sunday. I was 9 and ¾ months pregnant and exhausted after having walked around several stores looking for planter box hangers for the flowers we had bought and planted just the evening prior. Dale wanted to take a shower and crush cans for his aluminum collection and, while I would have normally been [...]

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Michelle’s third birth: blissful, gentle HypnoBirth

July 8, 2012
michellemetge

The birth went exactly as we dreamed it would.  It was the most perfect, gentle birth anyone could ask for! It all started with a contraction that woke me up about 12:30 am early Thursday morning, but I was able to go back to sleep… for another ten or fifteen minutes till the next one [...]

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Emilie’s Fourth Birth: Quick home birth

April 13, 2012
emiliebriggs

Washington Da Costa Briggs came very quickly and unexpectedly early in the morning on April 9. I was still two weeks away from my due date and, having been induced with my three prior pregnancies, I didn’t expect that going into labor naturally would be an easy thing to accomplish. I was fully prepared to [...]

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