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A childbirth educator cautions that nutrition is the key to preventing gestational diabetes and having a healthy homebirth.
Read more…. Don’t Risk Yourself Out of a Homebirth—Prevent Gestational Diabetes
Pleased that her midwives were there to support her during two normal, physiological births at home, a mother discovers that, when things turned abnormal, the medical world was also there to care for her.
Photo by Cornelia Enning
A mother shares her waterbirth story and urges others to have faith in the process of birth, their bodies and their babies.
An intensely poignant story about a very surprising homebirth, excerpted from midwife Carol Leonard’s book, Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart: A Midwife’s Saga.
Harriette Hartigan—harriettehartigan.com
After having two sons and three miscarriages, a mother worries about birthing her third child, but finds peace and strength in her planned home waterbirth.
Photo by Michelle McClafferty—BetterBirthPartners.com
Since when do we need an expert to tell us where we are comfortable? Since when do we need an expert to tell us with whom we feel relaxed and open and able to poop or make love or birth a baby? Read more…. The Question of Homebirth
Harriette Hartigan—harriettehartigan.com
Pleased that her midwives were there to support her during two normal, physiological births at home, a mother discovers that, when things turned abnormal, the medical world was also there to care for her.
After three hospital births, a mother discovers homebirth and gets the respectful, no-stress birth she’s been craving.
A mother uses a mantra she learned while hiking the Inca Trail in Peru to have a peaceful birth.
Ada strode into the office accompanied by her husband, mother and grandmother. She was the picture of health—and education.
Photos provided by the author
Five weeks before her due date, a Washington State mother learns from her out-of-hospital midwives that they will be unable to care for her because her baby is breech. A decision to drive to Oregon, where midwives can assist breech births at home is made, but baby has other plans. In the end, the couple’s Oregon midwife assists via phone and Bruno is born butt-first at home, into his mother’s hands.
“There are still midwives and mothers who know powerful stories. Who still live powerful birth stories. We must take courage and tell the stories. … We must take courage and believe the stories,” writes Sister MorningStar in this lovely introduction to our special section of homebirth stories.
