I wanted to post and let everyone know that our fifth child arrived on January 14. It wasn’t a homebirth as planned though. When I went into labor I just felt very panicked internally.. something didn’t feel normal to me..so off to the hospital we went. I asked for an epidural..a first for me out […]
Sadly it is hard to find a care provider who will support a mom in doing a vaginal birth of a breech baby. There are some out there, but you really have to search. Contact your local childbirth educators and doulas to see if they have resources for you. Another option is to try
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I was so happy when I reader offered to share her story of her external version for my X day. I had not thought of a good topic for today. So here is Sarah’s story of how her home birth was almost derailed by a breech baby, but how an external version helped her baby
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Katrina, a mom from the Hypnobabies Yahoo Group sent in her amazing birth story. She was pregnant with a breech baby, who just didn’t want to turn. Luckily she found a midwife who was trained to catch vaginal breech babies. She ended up having a nice, fast birth. It was definitely a fast ride. But
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I am sharing this story of a birth I attended as a doula, with permission from the mom. Charlotte’s Birth Jennifer had a few weeks of pre-birth pressure waves, it was a bit surprising to us all when she kept getting closer and closer to her guess date, as her first daughter was born at
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It is amazing to me that women are not free to choose how they birth. Many women are told they MUST have a cesarean, because their care providers or hospitals refuse to allow them to have a vaginal birth. Seems absurd that women are not allowed the choice. Here is an article about how women in
I have a dear friend who recently had her 5th baby. She escaped a cesarean with her first with a patient OB who allowed her to push for 4 hours with a posterior baby. Then she narrowly escaped a cesarean with her 4th baby. This story is incredible to me. The baby was breech, they
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Breech Homebirth surrounded by mothers (Dad was away on business!) I wasn’t surprised to have sailed past my due date with my 5th baby. Fielding the phone calls, answering the questions about “when are you due?” had become so ingrained in public conversation that even my 4 year old son was wise enough to
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When I find out someone is planning a cesarean, I start by asking, “Why?” It helps that I can say, “I had a cesarean with my first baby. Why are you having one?” Then I listen to their reasons. I ask how they feel about having a cesarean. Some moms feel really good about it,
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Cesarean rates are at an all time high and no one in the medical community or women’s groups seem to care. But there are women who DO care! I am one of them. In the next weeks I will be posting some articles I have been working on regarding worries and fears and how these
New Cesarean Rates are not surprising, but are disappointing. Read More »
Mauro’s Birth Mauro is 11 weeks old and I am just now getting around to writing his birth story. He has needed a lot more help adjusting to the world than his older sister did, and I also have had problems with breastfeeding and my breasts, including thrush, and we are just now settling in
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