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• Contrasts.

  
  FRECTIS — Authority: 110
  I attended two births in one day, almost exactly 12 hours apart.  One was due last month, one was due this month.  One boy, one girl.  One woman surrounded by family, the other with only her husband.  One noisy, the other quiet.  One totally uncomplicated, the other almost completely complicated.  One born in ...
  19 hours ago

• Another wonderful Hypnobabies Birth Story!

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 124
  This time from a Hypnobabies Instructor in Atlanta !
  1 day ago

• Australia Hates Liberty… and Mothers and Babies

  
  ThePolitic.com — Authority: 472
  My very first post on ThePolitic.com was on the subject of some horrendous legislation in Australia that would effectively outlaw midwife assisted homebirth.  For those who aren’t familiar with the practice, midwife assisted homebirth is exactly what it says.  It takes hospitals out of the equation when it comes ...
  1 day ago

• Home Birth vs. Birth Center

  
  Woman to Woman Childbirth Education — Authority: 426
  Pinky RN is looking for home-birthers to answer questions about home birth vs. birth center births:Would folks who want a homebirth because of the restrictive nature of the hospital, come to a freestanding birth center? Is there a demand for Birth Centers? Especially a Birth center across the street from the hospital ...
  2 days ago

• Keith’s Birth Story Wordle

  
  Woman to Woman Childbirth Education — Authority: 426
  Happy 5th Birthday, Keith!Here is the Wordle from the birth story I wrote last year:  And if you’re seeing this right now, you can watch Lynsee laboring live via webcam. So much different from the “severely chopped and edited to fit in a 30-minute TV show” labors! This is why being a midwife, doula, or other ...
  3 days ago

• "Can you have a baby in your belly?"

  
  Muffin Cake — Authority: 116
  Tonight, Luca and I were sitting on the floor together when she came over, put her hand on my belly, and said, "Can you have a baby in your belly?" I looked at Darrick. He looked at me. "Did you tell her to say that?" I asked him. The look of abject terror at the thought of another baby gave me my answer. And then I ...
  4 days ago

• Tiffani shares her inspirational VBA2C story

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 124
  Anyway, I had c-sections with my first two kids and knew that I wanted this 3rd one to be born natually and vaginally. I decided on a home birth rather than to find a doctor who would honor a VBAC, especially after 2 sections. My husband was NOT for it at first but the more and more I read and told him, the more ...
  5 days ago

• The red tape of parenthood (aka “I’m drowning, not waving”)

  
  A Brit Out Of Water — Authority: 397
  I promise that normal service will resume shortly, working on the assumption that all babies sleep for 12 continuous hours every single night after the age of 1 month, right?Anyway, you’ll no doubt be delighted to know that things are calming down at Casa del Brit Out Of Water, although to be honest it would [...]
  1 week ago

• Zi’s Birth Story

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 124
  Fast, easy birth.  NICU stay for infection.  Healthy baby and back home within the week. At around 6am on Thursday, September 17th I woke up as I couldn’t get comfortable in bed and decided that I could just nap later. Once I was up and eating breakfast I realized that it could possibly be some type of pressure ...
  1 week ago

• Hospital Admits Birth is Safer at Home During Flu Season

  
  Empowering Birth Blog — Authority: 106
  Ok, I know I said I was going to study but this is breaking news!  Below is the updated H1N1 Flu Visitation policy from a local hospital group.  Ok, so they dont really say birth is safer at home but that is certainly one way of interpreting their policy. I should note that the American Academy of Pediatrics does ...
  1 week ago

• Birth, Breastfeeding and Feminism?

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 118
  Earlier this year a birth activist contacted me for information about feminism and birth. Her "fire" was to write an article was lit by recent (at the time) articles praising elective cesareans. Her article was going to be about feminism and its history in birthwork as well as what she is seeing a current "backlash" ...
  1 week ago

• From one mama to another: book recommendations

  
  Rain Garden — Authority: 110
  My friend Suzy Popchicks (not her real name) asked me if I had any book recommendations for a potentially-pregnant lady. Wellllll, yes. Of course, I took it over-seriously and hashed out an entire list of recommendations. BABIES & PARENTING: Natural Family Living: The Mothering Magazine Guide to Parenting - ...
  1 week ago

• Grassroots Network: Actions to Support CPMs and Out of Hospital Birth!

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 118
  Dear Friends, As the Senate and House are in the final weeks and days of preparing their Health Reform bills for floor debate, THIS IS THE TIME to write letters and anything else you can do to make sure your Senators and Representatives in Washington, DC, know that you want CPMs included at the federal level! ...
  1 week ago

• Celebrity Webisodes on My Best Birth

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 118
  I confess to having been a fairly devoted fan of the Buffy, the Vampire Slayer TV show. So, imagine my delight to discover a " Celebrity Birth Webisode " on the MyBestBirth website featuring Alyson Hannigan (Willow in Buffy, now known for playing other roles, but Willow to me!) and her husband Alexis Denisof ...
  1 week ago

• Maddies Homebirth Story - Walk, move around, and change positions throughout labor

  
  Pursuing Harmony — Authority: 467
  I am participating in the Science and Sensibility blogs Blog Carnival on the subject of "Walk, Move Around, and Change Positions Throughout Labor". This is the story of my second child, Maddie, who was born at home in a birthing pool with the attendance of a midwife. Onset of Contractions I was in my 39th week ...
  1 week ago

• Beautiful Unplanned Home Birth

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 124
  Background: We live in Taiwan (Asia). DH left on a long and necessary business trip to Europe and planned to return to Taiwan at 39w. While this was cutting it close, I myself was born a week late and I’d read that first babies usually take a little longer to “bake” so I figured we’d be ok. At 38w3d, I wake ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unassisted Birth: A Father’s Experience

  
  Saving Gas — Authority: 162
  There’s been some very negative coverage of unassisted homebirths that ended in tragedy recently, so I’d love to share one of our homebirth stories with you to show the other side of giving birth unassisted. For those unfamiliar with the term , it refers to giving birth without a midwife, doula, or other medical ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review: Fathers-To-Be Handbook

  
  Citizens for Midwifery — Authority: 118
  Fathers-To-Be Handbook: A Road Map for the Transition to Fatherhood By Patrick Houser Creative Life Systems, 2007 Softcover, 160 pages, $16.95. ISBN: 978-0-615-23338-3 www.fatherstobe.org Reviewed by Molly Remer, MSW, ICCE http://talkbirth.wordpress.com I am delighted to see another contribution to a growing ...
  2 weeks ago

• 10 pound baby born in 2 pushes!

  
  Hypnobabies Blog — Authority: 124
  West= my 22 month old Son John= my husband The Birth of Mabel: Mid-morning on Oct 2nd I called my midwives to ask about labor inducing herbs they have. I was “due” on 9/28 according to ultrasound measurements (or 9/25 based on LMP-last menstral period). I was huge and very tired of being pregnant.  One of my ...
  2 weeks ago

• The birth of Sean Sylph

  
  Radical Midwife — Authority: 99
  My dear client (and friend!) Lee has given me persmission to share her birth story of her sweet stillborn son, Sean Sylph. ********* Late in the afternoon on September 10th, at 33 weeks of pregnancy, we found out that baby Sean was no longer alive. The morning of Friday, September 11th, after a difficult night, I ...
  2 weeks ago

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