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First Babies Can Fall Out But Often They Don't

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Are You a Birth Witch?

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If you are reading this, you probably are working long and hard to create an undisturbed birth experience for you and your baby….but why stop there? You don’t have to buy into the fear, pressure and chaos that surround MOST women after the baby is born. In fact, as you are holding your baby, you […]

5 Reasons You Need to OWN Your (Placenta’s) Birth

Postpartum - Mama and Baby

If our bodies are not pregnant with a child, we may still “birth” (in a different way) each month. I grew up as a pretty typical teenager, as far as my body and connection to it went. The health class instruction on “menstruation” (a word that made everyone laugh) and a dread of when “it” […]

From Blood to Birth and Back Again

Postpartum - Mama and Baby

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I never imagined that the most empowerment I have ever felt would come after birth. You’re guessing it’s the beautiful baby (yes, so blessed!) and the amazing freebirth experience (wouldn’t trade it for the world) as the source of my maximum oxytocin dose after my last 2 births. Yes to those lovely gifts, but also […]

Reflections of a Former After-Birth Bleeder

Labor and Birth

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As we here at Indie Birth and kindred spirits around the world venture back towards our traditional midwifery/birth attendance roots, we find ourselves in a linguistic pickle. The word midwife has been hijacked by the state of AZ (and pretty much everywhere else in the US), so there are now legal ramifications of using the […]

Labeling Birth: Unassisted, Home, Physiological, Traditional?

Unassisted Birth

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January 2009 Rune’s story is more than a birth story, really. I think that he would agree that this is true. Plus, what birth story doesn’t include random thoughts about life or death, reflections on how life is or how we want it to be? Pregnancy and birth is so all encompassing that there is […]

The Birth of Rune Winter

Birth Stories

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I hear from women regularly about their homebirth experiences. And being in the business of rabble rousing and questioning the status quo, many of these women who seek us out are unhappy with the care they received from their midwives, not just OBs. There are plenty of variations on the same theme. Midwives aren’t listening […]

Doctors Suck, But So Does Your Midwife

Pregnancy

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Now that I have my very own baby, I find myself here in the postpartum for the first time. There are so many postpartum topics that deserve attention, but the topic of birth control and fertility has come up quite a bit through talking with other postpartum mamas. Now, I don’t love the term “birth […]

Fertility Awareness in the Postpartum

Postpartum - Mama and Baby

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Writing a birth story is hard. You can really make it as simple or complex a version as you want. “I labored and then my baby came out” – this is how birth goes, and that simplicity is powerful too. But there is so much more (which is why this story is so long, but […]

The Birth of Celosia Pearl

Midwifery

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