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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This birth story can not be fully understood unless you know about the birth of my first child, a beautiful, spirited boy, Gabriel Kelly. I was naive and uneducated about birth; I had no clue that there were any options other than having an obstetrician in a hospital. My 18 hour labor started early one […]

I recently made a short movie about the homebirth / waterbirth of my son, Judah, in order to get people interested in and activated about homebirth; please forward the link to anyone you think might be interested.

When I think of birth, I think of optimum health. This is the time when all senses become the wisest. Wanting to keep my body at it’s purest – smells, tastes, sights, and sounds should be naturally wholesome. There is a new life developing within me – I am a habitat and I control my […]

he’s 10 days old today… already the sharp, clear lines of the memories and images of his birth are softening around the edges, taking on the more romantic quality that happens as time moves forward… so, i write. this pregnancy was different than the others. i was more aware, more comfortable inside my skin this […]