Natural Childbirth Stories

Well, it didn’t go quite as expected. Not quite sure what I expected, but it wasn’t this.
My first, born at 39+5weeks, was a long (35 hour), drawn-out process that involved waters breaking, contractions stopping, pitocin drips, 13 hours of hard labour, Dr talking c-section, and about a half hour of active pushing.
This one… just a [...]

I had prodromal labor for months with him so it was nothing new when the contractions started at 8pm. I tried to sleep and for the first time they didn’t stop, but got a little stronger. I got up, took a shower and begged him to let me sleep a little. They slowed [...]

I woke at 4am with mild cramping, went to the restroom and then back to bed. When dh’s alarm went off for him to go to work at 5, I told him I was having contractions but it was still early and sent him to work. By 6:30 they were pretty strong and I called [...]

*This birth story is written from the point of view of the mother’s sister*
I was lying in bed, having just turned out the reading lamp. The house was quiet—Colter and Greta were asleep, and Brent was in Leavenworth on a stakeout. Even though I was tired, I was excited. Reagan’s water had broken sometime earlier, [...]

Here is the story of my second daughter’s birth.  I like to say that Haven made me a mother, which was about as earth shattering as you could get, but Lyric’s birth made me a doula and aspiring midwife.
Following a miscarriage in September of 07, my previous OB told me it was my fault because [...]

It all started on Monday night. When I first started feeling contractions, we went out for Thai food because everyone had told us that I should try to eat as much as possible to maintain strength and energy. In retrospect, it was really nice that we did it just to have one last night out [...]

I woke up on Saturday morning (June 27th) at 5:30, having to use the bathroom, as usual.  But, when I rolled over and sat up to get out of bed I got a wet surprise and thought that maybe I had peed myself since it was kind of a small gush. So I grabbed a [...]

My “guess date” was October 6th, and I expected that I would be a week late, just like I was with our son.  I planned to work through the end of September.  My husband Josh and I had finished our Hypnobabies course a couple of weeks earlier, and we were anxious to put the technique [...]

I was 20 years old when our first daughter was born. Having grown up with a mother who was a birthing coach and a childbirth educator as well as a home birther, had given me a wonderful background and shaped my ideas of how birth was supposed to work. I had known from the time [...]

I went in for my apt on the 20th (Tues) and was 3cm at 80% so Alisa (the best midwife ever) stripped my membranes. That night I started having light contractions…all night. So Wed we went for 3 yes 3 walks. Once in the AM around the hood with hubby then at the park with [...]