A Little Homebirth Question and Answer

January 20, 2010

In the last few weeks, I have fielded quite a few questions from a specific “type” of mama–one that has had at least one previous hospital birth and is now starting to investigate homebirth. Within this breed of mama, there are still some differences. I’d say that some are sold on homebirth because [...]

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Birthing Requires Attitude

January 19, 2010

In the last week, I have had the honor of attending two labor and births; both for mamas having their 4th baby.
It made me very aware of a belief I have, and which these women both exhibited so beautifully. That belief is that pregnancy, labor, birth and motherhood require ATTITUDE.

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April’s Homebirth Story

March 6, 2009

Contractions started Saturday afternoon, the 8th of July 2006 for me. It was kind of funny because Guy and Laurie left, and not very long after that, I had a contraction.. of course at first I didn’t think it was anything different than the “braxton hicks” contractions, so I just kept going on, not thinking [...]

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Intuition and Ultrasound

March 5, 2009

Does using technology render our intuition useless?
This is a thought that flashes through my mind quite regularly. I only work with women choosing homebirth, and for what it’s worth, most of them are choosing ultrasound.
I find it to be a hard situation; for me, that is.

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The Freebirth of Sunny Ryder

January 25, 2009

Sunny’s pregnancy was long and hard, puking did not ease up until the weeks were into the 20s and nausea remained throughout, giving me a brief break around 35wks, but was back again just weeks later. Pelvic instability set in at 14wks and so began months of pain that didn’t ease up until the wee [...]

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Home birth? Maybe. Unassisted homebirth? No way. Never say never.

November 25, 2008

February 11, 2007 PM Cold winter day, snow in the forecast
“Mom, I just had a dream that you just stood up and your water broke and the baby just came out.” my son Izayah said to me a few days before my new son was born. I laughed and dismissed his dream and told [...]

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A Homebirth Letter to Lukas

November 2, 2008

Dear Lukas,
I had the great privilege to be present at your birth. Your mother and I met at a picnic in the summertime and she invited me to come to your birth as a doula (labor support person). We met up later in the season and talked about ways I could be of help. [...]

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Harriet’s Unassisted Homebirth

October 25, 2008

Andrew and I had been planning for the birth of our first child for two years before her birthday finally arrived. During that time we read extensively about birth and decided that the most important thing to us was giving our baby the kind of welcome to the world that all baby’s received in ancient [...]

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My Perfect Yoni: the Homebirth Waterbirth of Rhylan

October 16, 2008

At 41 weeks and 1 day pregnant and after weeks of contractions and being 4-5 cms dilated I was a bit annoyed that I had woken still pregnant. I mean I had both of my other children on this day of pregnancy.
So we went to shops for the day and let the kids play [...]

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Unassisted Homebirth Story: An Amazing, Normal Day

October 8, 2008

I have two friends who had homebirths last summer. One had an unassisted water birth, and the other had a midwife-assisted homebirth. When my husband Carlos and I got pregnant last fall, I knew that I wanted a homebirth. I had birthed four babies previously, all with OB/GYNs in a hospital (with induction and pain [...]

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