Birth Stories

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 [...]

It’s Sunday morning and I’m sitting at my computer for the first time in what seems like forever. It’s time to write down the feelings in my heart before these feelings fade into new feelings and experiences. I don’t know if there are words to adequately express exactly how I feel at this moment- but [...]

My first baby was born at 29 weeks, and I was on bed rest for 7 weeks with Annica, my second. As much as I wanted an out-of-hospital birth, nobody thought that would possible for me, we thought my baby would need to be in the hospital, with the NICU team right there. As I [...]

Janell had a great labor, and probably could have vaginally birthed her breech baby if her care provider had been experienced in breech birth. Remember that breech is just a variation of normal, and babies were born butt or feet first for centuries. It is a lost art in our culture, but some midwives still know [...]