November 2009
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Home Birth Video - Breaking News Videos from... →
Little boy helps mom during surprise home birth VBAC last Friday.
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Home Birth Story: Welcome Maia
My first two children were born in hospitals, with conventional care, and since I had gestational diabetes with both, I had a lot of interventions. When my husband and I decided to have a third baby, I wanted to do things differently. I Wanted the information I needed to take great care of myself. I wanted to make decisions for myself based on my own good reasoning. So before we tried to get...
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Home Birth Stories: A Journey Through Three Births
ds1 born 02/02/95 6lbs 6 oz. 19 in. 37 weeks no complications I was 14 when I met my first husband and decided I was going to marry him. I’m a pretty strong-willed person and tend to draw things into my life when I’ve decided I really want them. In this case I wanted him and after a year he proposed to me. We were engaged for a year and married shortly after my 16th birthday. I...
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Home Birth Story: A Second Water Birth
This is the story of the birth of our third child and second water birth. All of our children were born at 37 weeks 4 days gestation though the first baby was born via c-section by the doctor’s choice because of Frank breech positioning. In attendance at the birth were my husband, Shawn, the midwife, P, our 6 year old daughter, A, and our 3 year old son, G. Sunday 10pm: Contractions...
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River's Home Birth Story
by Lennon
On Sunday morning (early hours), January 25, 2004, I was in my normal routine of waking up every 2-3 hours to pee. During one of these trips to the bathroom, I felt what I described at the time as gas pains, as it felt like the sensations were coming from my intestines, not my uterus. They weren’t that bad, just uncomfortable, and while I was able to sleep, I couldn’t sleep very...
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Homebirth Research: Outcomes after planned home... →
A review was performed of literature retrieved from searches in MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, Cinahl and The Cochrane Library and relevant references found in the articles. The searches were limited to studies published in 1985 and later.
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INTERPRETATION: There is no sound basis for discouraging low-risk women from planning a home birth.
For the complete review, please visit pubmed.gov
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Thalea's Home Birth Story (My Perfect VBAC): →
If you are not familiar with our history we had a few obstacles to overcome before this birth became possible. 1993 - My first baby was born via induced vaginal delivery at 9 days past my due date. A week of prodomal labor, 12 hours active/hard labor and 30 minutes of pushing. She was posterior, but born vaginally. 1997 - Second baby was born via c-section for posterior brow presentation after...
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A Father's Perspective of Birth
Soft glowing candles and gentle music and the same downy pillows that you always use are just a few reasons why my wife and I are in favor of home birth. Our first experience with hospital birth had my wife strapped down and hooked up to little gray machines that chirp and beep and go ping, with nurses in colorful uniforms buzzing around telling us to just take some drugs so we could stay in time...