January 2012
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“The number of babies born at home in Maryland has increased dramatically since...”
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At-home births not necessarily a thing of the past » Local News » Cumberland Times-News
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“Bonnie Pascal’s son drew his first breath on his mother’s bed, surrounded by...”
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Home birth after 40 - Parentcentral.ca
December 2011
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Watch(via Erykah Badu Says Home Birthing is An Ancient Art | Madame Noire | Black Women’s Lifestyle Guide | Black Hair | Black Love)
November 2011
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“The Grand Isle town clerk was a little nervous when Marada Cook and Ryan Redmond...”
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Home birth was first in Grand Isle in 40 years — Maine News — Bangor Daily News
October 2011
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“In stark contrast to TLC’s “A Baby Story,” laboring at home...”
– Home birth shows woman at her most powerful | The Poughkeepsie Journal | poughkeepsiejournal.com
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September 2011
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In Pangasinan, birthing homes give ‘personalized... →
Midwives used to go on house calls to help women give birth at their homes. Now, they are establishing centers where women in labor can avail themselves of home-like comfort and a clean environment equipped with modern medical facilities. Fourteen such birthing homes exist in Dagupan City and other towns in Pangasinan, says Villa Payag, 51, one of the midwives who pioneered the project. A mother...
August 2011
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All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story - Watch the... →
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'Cord Around the Neck' Shouldn't Mean C-Section |... →
“He could have died if I’d had a home birth — his cord was around his neck.” You’ve heard that, right? Heard people also say that their baby wasn’t breathing at birth, because the cord was there, or that their baby had medical issues, even anemia or brain damage due to the cord? However, it appears that we shouldn’t be as terrified of this. A cord around...
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The politics and magic of childbirth - Ethan... →
“Home/Birth” is structured as a fragmented succession of thoughts, recollections, slogans, facts, poetry, stream-of-consciousness riffing on pregnancy, on birth and sometimes on the state of the world. On any given page, the pieces appear only loosely connected, but throughout the book a number of themes recur at intervals, creating a number of interwoven plot lines around the larger theme of...
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“I’ve had a lot of people ask me what the biggest difference between hospital...”
– Cora’s Home Birth Photos « The Lazy Homesteader
July 2011
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“For some pregnant Long Beach mothers, the first signs of labor don’t sound...”
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Long Beach Mothers Go All Natural - Long Beach, NY Patch
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The Swazi Observer →
Many rural Swazi women are still not satisfied with the treatment they receive in hospitals while giving birth, which explains why a lot of them still prefer giving birth at home, a new research conducted in the northern Hhohho region suggests. The study was presented at the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) triennial congress held in Durban recently and it drew the attention of...
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Home Birth Story: The Birth of Sage
Born July 6th 2011 7:56AM At home. 7lbs 8oz and 20inches Birth Story 7-5-11 BEFORE I had a midwife appointment, we had been having trouble finding my cervix at previous appointments, but this time we actually found it! My cervix was hiding all the way to the left and was 2 centimeters dilated! I was so happy! My midwife swept my membranes at my request, and manually stretched it for a bit. I...
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Call for more mothers to give birth at home «... →
Anthony Falconer, college president, claimed politicians had a “moral imperative” to make the case for national reform. Official figures show another rise in birth rates, with 723,165 babies born in England and Wales last year – 22 per cent more than a decade ago. Dr Falconer said the current maternity system was “not acceptable nor sustainable” and argued that women should no longer think of...
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Home birth on the rise by a dramatic 20 percent -... →
One mother chose home birth because it was cheaper than going to a hospital. Another gave birth at home because she has multiple sclerosis and feared unnecessary medical intervention. And some choose home births after cesarean sections with their first babies.
Whatever their motivation, all are among a striking trend: Home births increased 20 percent from 2004 to 2008, accounting for 28,357 of...
June 2011
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Home Birth Story: A first birth
The Birth of Myles Kade Johnson - My first birth! February 9th, 2011 3:50am 7lbs 2oz and 21in On Tuesday, February 8th, I woke up and was feeling a little “off” and kind of crampy, not a big deal or something out of the ordinary when your 41-43 weeks pregnant! Around 11am went to the bathroom and discovered I had lost part of my mucous plug. I texted my midwife to let her know...
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“This birth starts at 6:30am Sunday morning. I am laying in bed feeling each...”
– Daily Surrenders: The Breech Birth of Annaka Faith
April 2011
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Home Birth Story: Chapter Three
I posted back in oct 2009 about my previous 2 homebirths right after I found this website. Now I want to add my third homebirth story. http://morebabiespreferhomebirth.com/post/221323105/home-birth-story-two-home-births My Third Homebirth This story begins with a surprise, a disappointment and devastation, then a renewed joy. We had felt that our family of 4 was complete and were not trying for...
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Home Birth Story: Miriam's Unassisted Birth
God ALWAYS Answers Prayers! As a woman enters a pregnancy, she starts down a path that will present her with many opportunities for learning and personal growth. Miriam’s birth was no exception to this. As this was my fourth pregnancy, I wasn’t new to this journey and was eager to see where this one would take me. The first decision we made in regard to this pregnancy was to give birth at home...
March 2011
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Home Birth Story: 43 Weeks
Our life’s journey begins in the womb. It is a time that should be respected and honored for its life impact. We each undergo this at least once, more if we’re parents through our children. We honor our children by accepting their journey through all its joys and challenges. By honoring their journey we honor ours. My husband Jon is a chiropractor. I teach Bradley® childbirth classes and study...
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Home Birth Story: Micah Jon
The day leading up to Micah’s birth was like many others, except it wasn’t, it was almost his birth day! We had a prenatal appointment that afternoon and had to have the conversation about what would happen if I were to go past 42 weeks. This is something each client covers at this point, but our history with Simon’s 43 week pregnancy made it even more relevant. I had stated frequently throughout...
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Home Birth Story: My Perfect Birth
To know how tremendous this experience was I have to share my varied birthing history. My first was a c-section after a very long labor, it traumatized me, at one point I had to beg for a nurse to remove her hands from my vagina. It took me a while to heal, but I found a way through. My second was a planned homebirth, expecting to be more like a first timer, and thus a long labor the pain and...
December 2010
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October 2010
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Home Birth Story: Miracles do happen!
I woke up at 1:00am having contractions. They didn’t feel quite right, so I assumed they were Braxton Hicks (practice contractions). I alternated walking and laying down, praying they would stop so I could get some sleep. About 3:00 I “felt the call of nature” and while finishing up there felt “something” at the opening to the birth canal. It was smooth and the size of a babies head. I am afraid I...
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Home Birth Story: The Perfect Birth
The Perfect Birth This was to be my seventh birth. The whole pregnancy had been my easiest so far and, though anxious to get it over with and hold my baby, I was feeling pretty good. I had been having contractions every morning (3:00ish) for several days, but when these woke me up at 3:30, July 24, I could tell they were a little different. I was a few days past my due date, and I could tell from...
September 2010
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Home Birth Story: Isaiah Gideon
The UC of Isaiah Gideon I just don’t know if there are words to do justice to the way my baby boy came into this world. To put it simply and maybe best, it was a little piece of heaven. I’ve never been closer to God or my family as I was in the moments he was born and after. As a mama who has had 2 cesareans and one hospital vba2c, this birth is incredibly special to me. I wrote his birth story, 2...
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Home Birth Story: Welcome Serenity
On August 25th, 2010, @ 41w2d, I woke up at 5:30am feeling a small leak of fluid. I got up and went to the bathroom, laid back down and felt a *big* gush. I snuck into the master bathroom to change into dry clothes and get a pad, trying not to wake Dan. I had gone to bed at 2ish so I decided I should try to get some more sleep before contractions hit. Between the excitement and the constant fluid...
August 2010
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10 Questions Answered by Homebirth Dads →
A home birth dad has invited other home birth fathers to answer ten questions. Read what nine dads have to say about the home births of their children.
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From a Dad to Dads
*The 7 Secrets of Being A Home Birth Dad *
By Ven Batista
Ven Batista wrote this article after his wife, Bel, had her second daughter at home in London.
All Dads-to-be are nervous, or at least skeptical, when their wife/partner first mentions the idea of having a home birth. This is nothing to be ashamed of – us guys are conditioned by a lifetimes constant bombardment that Doctors know best and...
July 2010
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2008 Article on Home Birth in Baltimore
LIKE ANY 8-DAY-OLD BABY, Jimmy Gaffney spends most of his time either nursing or sleeping. Peacefully alternating between the two while cradled in his mother’s arms in the family’s sun-dappled Hamilton backyard, the robust newborn looks like a promotional photograph for parenthood. And yet, so far as the state and city of his birth are concerned, this baby does not officially exist.
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» Sorry Guys, Homebirth is Still Safe. →
This past Friday, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology released an article online about a study–more accurately, a meta-analysis–by Dr. Joseph R. Wax of the obstetrics and gynecology department at Maine Medical Center and his colleagues. The analysis reached the loud conclusion that homebirth, while having significantly better intervention and morbidity rates than planned hospital...
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More on Flawed Home Birth Study →
A new study by U.S. researchers questions the safety of giving birth at home, suggesting that more babies die during home births than during hospital deliveries. But Canadian researchers, whose data were extracted and used in the study, say that conclusion is deeply flawed.
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In many cases, she says, women included in the studies may not have planned to give birth at home. They may not have...
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Study the Studies
“Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.” Mark Twain
A new study has been published by the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Predictably, as the prominent organizations of OB/GYN’s have denounced home birth for years, the study determined that home birth posed a significant risk of death for the newborns. However, having familiarized myself in only a...
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Home Birth Story: Unassisted
This Pregnancy: The First Twenty Weeks Between Maddie’s birth and this pregnancy, I learned a lot. I’m a childbirth teacher and have worked as a doula. I’ve read piles on childbirth and have gone through three different professional training workshops. I attended 2 homebirths as a doula, and 4 hospital births. By the time I got pregnant with this baby, there was no doubt I was...
June 2010
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Chloë's Birth Story →
Finally ! At 42 completed weeks of pregnancy, and after a week of prodromal labour, I was OVERJOYED to have contractions for which I actually needed to lean on the table and breathe through (they were immediately regular, too - every two to three minutes right from the get-go). They began at about 10:45 pm, Saturday night. I sent out the “IT’S ON !” e-mail to...
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The Arrival of Sierra Journey →
I woke up with the urge to go take a warm bath. Jesse and I got into the bathtub and I felt so relaxed…and then the contractions started rushing in with gusto. Blood was coming out in little bits. Jesse told the midwives that things were really progressing. They got on their way, and we filled up the big blue birthing tub outside on the grass. I absolutely loved the smell of ...
April 2010
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Home Birth Story: How My Baby Came into the World
by Kara Lea Maynard 4am. I had gone to bed around 2am because baby girl(we knew she was a girl from the moment we found out we were pregnant) was already a night owl so I was up late..I had fallen asleep-finally-but I woke up suddenly with a cramp. I thought to myself, “I have to go to the bathroom, NOW!” I got up on my hands and knees because it hurt so bad and when I stood up, WOOSH! It...
February 2010
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Gisele Bundchen & Patriots' Tom Brady Chose Home... →
Two months after giving birth to her son Benjamin the supermodel, who had a home birth in a bathtub says giving birth “didn’t hurt in the slightest.”
The model gave birth in her home in Boston with her husband Tom Brady, her mom, and a midwife by her side. “My delivery was in a bath tub, in water,” said the 29-year-old. “I wanted to have a home birth. I wanted to be very aware and present during...
December 2009
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Home Birth Story: July Baby
My due date was July 12th or 14th, and both Michael and I thought the baby would be born on July 8th. I was preparing for the birth with HypnoBabies, but not very religiously and was just taking what I liked and leaving what I didn’t. At most of my late 3rd trimester appointments, the baby was persistently posterior (or ‘sunny side up’). I did lots of exercises,...