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Birth Stories

Katie’s second birth: Home water birth; Mom remains in deep hypnosis throughout; easily births a posterior military presentation baby with no tearing.

January 30, 2012

I have looked forward to writing this birth story for a long time. Just a week ago I was so excited to experience what my birth story would be and wondered how it would play out. Now that our little girl is here I can’t believe that my birth experience has happened and that I [...]

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Nikki’s first birth: Quick, easy water birth

January 25, 2012
nikkiyorgason

Ever since I was young, I always knew I wanted to have a natural childbirth. Hospitals frighten me, and so when I got pregnant, my husband and I began to research natural childbirth methods. I learned about midwives and out-of-hospital births and water births, and felt strongly that was the route I wanted to take. [...]

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Tiffany’s first birth: Quick, intense labor; 9 lb baby; beautiful water birth

January 25, 2012
tiffanystubbs

Nothing in my life has ever been typical. I don’t know why I expected Connor’s arrival to be. I had a normal, uneventful pregnancy, and assumed that I would be a “normal” first-time mom and have a baby that either came on the estimated due date or later in the birth month. I assumed my [...]

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Ruthie’s first birth: 3 hour labor, surprise home birth!

January 5, 2012
williamhigbee

This birth reminds me so much of my own experience birthing Asher in the back of our van in the garage. Whenever I tell people the story, they react as though it is the scariest, worst thing they ever heard, and I love telling them that I had an easy, nearly painless labor. That it [...]

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Christina’s First Birth: 24 hour relaxed labor, totally unmedicated, arrived at hospital at 10 cm dilation

December 13, 2011
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I was Christina’s doula, and I have a lot of amazing memories of this birth. One thing that stands out to me as a truly beautiful moment was her husband, Darren, telling the story of how they met and fell and love, as Christina was pushing. It had everyone in the room smiling, and the [...]

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Sally’s First Birth: Water Birth at a Birth Center. Stayed calm and focused even with intense back labor.

December 13, 2011
sally

“The point of HypnoBirthing is NOT to birth without pain. The point is to birth with LOVE and CONFIDENCE, without FEAR, without unnecessary INTERVENTION, and with a supportive team who shares your birth vision. THAT is the definition of a successful hypnobirth.” ~Laura Curtis HBCE On Tuesday, June 21st at 6:30 am, I woke up [...]

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Mackenzie’s First Birth:

December 6, 2011
mackenzie slade

Ruby is 6 days old! I can hardly believe that this time last week my body was prepping itself to deliver her. Sunday I felt completely terrible, I threw-up in the morning and then again after dinner, I missed church because I just felt so awful. I was hoping these were all signs that I [...]

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Holly’s First Birth: Quick progress, Euphoric birth!

December 6, 2011
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Our sweet baby boy came to us on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 11:01am. Here is his story… At 3:40 in the morning, I woke up to a tightened belly and what I realized  was a real surge! I got up to go to the bathroom and the feeling went away. When the next one [...]

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Marissa’s first birth: Unmedicated at the Hospital

November 8, 2011
marissaVW

Monday night I couldn’t sleep, for the first time I was having practice surges. I thought nothing of it. I thought about calling in sick to work the next morning because I got no sleep and the surges were still coming every once and a while. But I decided to go anyways. At work I [...]

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First-time Mama, 9 lb baby, Six hour labor, Peaceful Home Water Birth

November 7, 2011
katravis

Kat was one of my most dedicated hypno-birthers ever. She really put her heart and soul into preparing for this birth, and with the help of her wonderful husband and excellent midwife, Richelle Jolley, she gave her baby such a beautiful welcome on his birthday. This story gave me the chills. Today Phineas is a [...]

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