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Birth Stories
Birth stories are a lot of fun to read. Unfortunately, in our society we tend to hear "horror" stories instead of empowering ones.
Natural birth is a beautiful thing, and natural birth stories are inspiring and empowering.
Sharing your birth story helps create new, healthy traditions for mothers-to-be everywhere.
It also creates a birth story tradition that will empower our daughters when it is time for them to give birth.
Natural birth can happen anywhere - at home, in a hospital, in a birthing center. Some exceptional birth stories happen in cars and other strange places!
You can share your baby's birth! Submit your birth story and I will add it to our collection!
My Babies
- Cassidy's Home Birth
- Asher's Home Birth
- Brennan's Home Birth - Water Birth
- Galen's Unassisted Birth - midwife didn't make it!
More Birth Stories
- Eloise's Home Birth - VBAC
- Carly's Home Birth - Posterior Baby
- Kate's Baby - Home Birth
- Maia's Birth - Birth Center Transfer
- Thane's Home Birth
- Emrys' Unassisted (UC) Home Birth
- Katy's Baby - Birth Center Transfer
- Sadie's Home Birth (Labor in the water)
- Liberty Sage's Home Birth
- Macey's Home Birth - VBAC Breech
- Heather's Babies - Two Hospital births + Homebirth with 3rd
- Lindsay's Birth Center Birth
- Kathryn's Home Birth - VBAC water birth
- Kirsten's baby - Home Birth
- Christy's baby - Unassisted (UC) Home Birth
- Gillian's Birth - Natural Hospital Birth
- Sherrie's baby - Natural Hospital Birth (with pitocin!)
- Tia's baby - Natural Hospital Birth
- Trenton's birth - Birth Center
- Trystan's birth - Natural Hospital Birth (military facility!)
- Gabriella's birth - Natural Hospital Birth (after induction!)
- Hannah Elizabeth's birth - Home Water Birth (with pics!)
- Gabriella Maya's birth - Natural Hospital Birth (after induction, military facility!)
- Raven's birth - Natural Hospital Birth full of Laughter!
- Tara's Baby - Natural Hospital Birth (with pics!)
- Sophianna's birth - Home water birth (with a pic!)
- Eleu's birth - Natural Hospital Water Birth - Shoulder Dystocia handled in birth tub (and baby pics!)
- William's birth - at Home, BIG baby!
- Aurora's Home birth! Hypnobirthing used!
- Lea's Home Birth!
- Leah's Home Birth. Bradley Method techniques were very helpful!
- Benjamin's (very fast!) Home Birth
- Miriam's Home Birth
- Lily'rei's Birth Center Birth - a Joyful Hypnobirth!
- Aaron's Home Birth
- Valerie's Baby's Unassisted Birth - too quick for the midwife!
- Angela's Baby - Natural birth even at unknown hospital
- Amanda and Elissa's lovely Hospital births
- Jackson's Birth - very peaceful Hospital birth!
- Aiden's Birth - born just in time!
- Chris' Home Birth - a 10-month-mama shares her story!
- Elia Rose's Home Birth
- Holly's Baby - a speedy little one gives his mother an empowering experience!
- Colton and Brendon's Birth - exciting birth of twins - naturally!
- Becky's Birth Center Birth - very sweet!
- Angeliya's Home Birth
- Nikolai's Unassisted Home Birth - wonderful unassisted waterbirth!
- Isaiah's Home Birth - empowering home birth of a 36-weeker
- Missy's Birth - a quick natural hospital birth!
- Becoming Atmosphere: The Laborious Details of Giving the Light to Iris Luna Erskine (home birth)
- Ava's Home Birth - beautiful outdoor water birth!
- Oksana's Babies - hospital VBACs!
- Courtney's Babies - empowering hospital births after hard first birth
- Cougars Birth - beautiful solo water birth. Very inspiring UC!
- Victor's Birth. Natural hospital birth, exhausted mom able to rest up and birth her babe!
- Eliseo's Birth. Natural Birth Center birth for first time mom!
- Taylor's and Luke's birth. Two natural hospital births!
- Kyra's Lovely Water Birth
- Clarissa's Baby - Beautiful descriptions of labour feelings
- Toni's Baby - Wonderful! Good description of couple's choice to home birth
- Caroline's Baby - Empowering VBAC at home
- Kadence's Birth - Challenging birth - baby successfully born at birth center
- Lola's Birth - Long Natural Birth - lots of laboring at home, birthing at hosptial
- Will's Birth - Unsure about Home Birth but thrilled with going through with it!
- Leyla Jane's Birth - Lovely Unassisted Birth
- Rachael's Birth - Natural hospital birth. Excellent descriptions of working with birth process!
- Jackson's Birth - Lovely natural hospital birth. Wonderful doula and staff worked with family.
- Amelie Grace's Birth - Beautiful birth center birth with good example of using labor signposts.
- Quinn's Birth - Great New Year's Eve homebirth!
- Michelle's Baby - Natural hospital birth with long pushing stage that's totally worth it!
- Evangeline's Birth - Wonderful home birth, lots of moving, in and out of tub - water birth!
- Sage Makena's Birth - Beautiful home birth after a long labor
- Emma's Baby - Great hospital birth, babe pinks up beautifully without assistance
- Little Dude's Birth - Hosptial birth from Dad Dude's perspective - great birth story!
- Willow's Birth - Very peaceful homebirth using Bradley method - video included.
- Aria's Birth - Wonderful waterbirth in the hospital. Very inspiring story.
- Willow Margaret's Birth - Lovely birth in a birth center after overcoming a "medwife" sanctioned hospital trip.
- Miles Walter's Birth - Short birth center birth - baby kicks 'til the water breaks!
- Zephyr's Birth - So eager to be born he arrived in the car en route to the birth center!
- Jamin's Birth - Natural birth after induction. Scriptures and the Pink Kit help mom through!
