Feb 29, 2016 | Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Second birth, Tearing
A Wondrous Natural Birth I knew I didn’t want to give birth in a hospital but I wasn’t quite sure if I wanted to go drug free. I spent a lot of time weighing my options, talking with a friend who had two natural births and watching “The Business of...
May 19, 2011 | Afterbirth, Doula Attended, First Birth, GBS, Hibiclens, HypnoBirthing, Long Labor, Midwife Attended, Overdue, Partner Attended, Ring of Fire, Surrender, Tearing, Waterbirth
Surrender: My Birth Story Surrender: verb, to give oneself up, as into the power of another; submit or yield. Before I had a baby of my own I was/am a doula. I’ve been with women as they’ve crossed over into motherhood in both hospitals and birth centers....
Mar 4, 2011 | Empowered, First Birth, Mourning, Premature, Second birth, Siblings, Tearing, Transformation
by Tracee Sioux My birth story begins on Sept. 11, 2001. Three weeks before my daughter was born I photographed the second plane smashing through the second tower of the World Trade Center. Holding my swollen belly, and the baby within, I witnessed the entire world as...
Feb 27, 2011 | Bathroom birth, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Overdue, Partner Attended, Passing out, Pitocin, Tearing, Third birth
I am choosing to submit my story anonymously because, although this is my personal, true story, it also belongs to my children. I have their personal birth stories written down and stored in a special place to be shared with them when the time is right. I do not...
