I Can't Afford a Homebirth and Other Money Issues

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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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Mothering

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The experience of giving birth is more than bringing another human being into this world, it’s also a Birthing for the Mother. We Birth ourselves, stretching our ideas of who we are, stretching ourselves to new limits and Becoming part of the Universal dance of Life and Death. We discover parts of ourselves we’ve long […]

Birthing Ourselves

Pregnancy

2 homebirths this week, each equally beautiful and magical and both offering me a similar insight. Less, less, less, I say to myself at every birth. How can I “do” less? My mantra of “do nothing, say nothing, be nothing” is put to the test as I observe each and everything that occurs at a […]

Birth is Being, Not Doing

Labor and Birth

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Shortly after I woke up on Tuesday, November 24, four days past my “due date,” (HA!) I lost my mucous plug. I hadn’t had any other signs of impending labor and had pretty much resigned myself to being pregnant well past Thanksgiving. When I told Evan about this new development, his eyes lit up and […]

The Natural Childbirth of Liam

Labor and Birth

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Edward’s birth story begins about 3 days before his birth, when I started having light contractions that stayed at a pretty steady 10-15 min apart and 1.5 minutes long. The evening of the 22nd, the day before he was born, the contractions went to 7 minutes apart , 50 seconds long, and stayed consistent no […]

The Unassisted Breech Homebirth of Edward

Birth Stories

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Hello all! In honor of the new year I decided to get to it and type up the birth of Tranden Excalibur. When praying about how to go about posting this I was perplexed as to how to start off. I do not want to offend nor do I feel like I should apologize. I […]

Tranden Excalibur’s Unassisted Homebirth

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Jun 8, 2006 Gage’s Birth I thought I would go ahead and tell Gage’s birth story. He’s 7 weeks old today. He’s already grown so much. He weighs almost 14 lbs! I woke up at 2:00 am on April 19th to contractions. I was so excited to think that I was going to have this […]

Gage’s Birth

Birth Stories

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I woke up this morning with a thought on my head and it just won’t go away. How natural is our natural is our birthing process today? Really I mean it. Women say they are having a ‘natural’ birth and then go into a hospital? Now let me get it said from the start… I […]

How Natural is Natural Birth?

Labor and Birth

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Our little boy was born on June 4th, 2008 at 11:02am. I first started feeling irregular contractions on Sunday, June 1st around 1:45 pm. These irregular contractions lasted the rest of that afternoon and all of the next day, but would stop and start, and weren’t really getting intense at all; just annoying… Finally, around […]

The Homebirth Stories of Guy and His Baby Sister

Birth Stories

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One day I was working on a flyer for my holistic birth and wellness services. I was googling images of pregnant bellies when my 5 year old daughter came over to see what I was up to. She stood next to me and quietly watched as I experimented with different images, until I stumbled upon […]

What’s Miraculous Mommy?

Mothering

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