Birth Stories

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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Lauren’s First Birth: labored at home until 9 cm; all natural hospital birth

April 6, 2012
Adilyn Grace

On Monday March 26 we had an appointment with Doctor Kinghorn to see if Adilyn was any closer to coming.  After four weeks in a row of no change and an “unfavorable cervix” the doctor decided induction was the safest route to take since I was past my due date.  We were scheduled for checking [...]

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Shannon’s First Birth: Home Birth Without Fear

April 5, 2012
volpefamily

My birth story begins several weeks before my guess date when I started having LOADS of pre-labor every night. I hadn’t had any Braxton-Hicks before then, and so that’s what I thought I was experiencing until I described my surges to my midwife (Cathy O’Bryant) and she told me they were the real deal. Every [...]

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Krystal’s Second Birth: Natural birth at the hospital; baby arrives before midwife; born in the amniotic sac!

March 13, 2012

They always say each labor is different and this one was way different from my first. My first was awesome but this one I couldn’t have asked for a better birth! I used hypnobirthing again. To begin, I was kind of scared to go into labor because I had been pretty sick. Took some medicine [...]

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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
IMG_1071-1

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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