pamela on Jun 09 2008 | Filed under: birth story
From a client of mine who just birthed her third baby, first at home, in the water: Her birth story, part one, which details issues around complete placenta previa and her emotions and feelings around that. Keep posted for the rest of her story!
pamela on May 09 2008 | Filed under: birth story, births, life of a midwife
Third time mom, first home birth. Various due dates ranging from April 10 to April 27. Long prelabor, stop and start painful contractions for the past month.
Late last night, after a three hour labor, this beautiful mama birthed her 11lb 14oz baby boy into hers and her husband’s hands in the water.
What a different birth […]
pamela on Apr 17 2008 | Filed under: birth story, celebrity news
A wonderful couple gave birth to their first baby, a girl, this morning at 8.11am. Her water broke at 4.40am, intense contractions at 5.35am, I was at their house by 6.30am. Baby was born posterior with asynclitic molding.
In other news…
Rixa has an entry in which Ani DiFranco discusses her homebirth experience.
I have heard […]
pamela on Mar 28 2008 | Filed under: articles, birth photos, birth story, birth trust, breech birth
Here is an intelligent, beautiful post written by Australian midwife Lisa Barrett on breech vaginal births. She has the most gorgeous photos that accompany the post!
spamelita on Nov 21 2007 | Filed under: birth story, midwife practice, my life
Had a birth early this morning, third baby (first boy!), 11lbs 8oz, born posterior. Short and sweet aside from some extra blood loss that resolved rather smoothly.
We have one more November mom, was due at the beginning of the month, that is expecting her first baby.
Doing a group prenatal up in Portland on Saturday.
Lots of […]
spamelita on Nov 18 2007 | Filed under: birth story, cesarean epidemic, ranty, revolutionizing birth
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I have seen so many birth stories just like this. I’ve known a few women that wanted to send birth announcements to their previous providers (that ‘diagnosed’ CPD), but they knew that the providers wouldn’t remember them at all. How upsetting that we remember the providers that cause us trauma, grief and intense pain […]
spamelita on Nov 18 2007 | Filed under: birth story, my life
A close friend (a homebirthing doc) called me last night when I was on the road. She was in tears, telling me that her dog (who had been ill over the past few days) was dying and if I wanted to say goodbye, I should come now.
I drove straight over (fortunately I was close to […]
spamelita on Oct 23 2007 | Filed under: birth story
Had her baby four days ago…and when I asked her if I could include her story in my blog (especially since her first was so intense), she laughed. “I don’t know what there is to tell. I had a baby, that’s it!”
It’s true. Her labor started on her and her husband’s five […]
spamelita on Aug 09 2007 | Filed under: birth story
I’ve known Bethany for about five or six years. The eldest of twelve children, she witnessed the last four of her siblings born at home (the other eight were born in the hospital). Sassy and fiercely independent, I have never known her to be anything other than this.
When her family decided to move […]
spamelita on Jul 29 2007 | Filed under: birth story, vbac
she called me at around 1am to say her water broke…I could hear on the phone that contractions were starting up fast and furious right away.
we arrived at her house at 2.35am (the disadvantage of hiring a midwife an hour away) and by 3.30am she was pushing. her ten pound baby girl slipped into […]
spamelita on Jul 15 2007 | Filed under: birth story, midwife practice
last night a new client of mine lost her baby. 11 and a half weeks along, we kept in contact via phone throughout the night at various stages of her loss. I feel for her and her husband.
our culture deals so poorly with death - and we seem to have a coldness about […]
spamelita on Jul 04 2007 | Filed under: birth story
the twins were born this morning!
mom’s water broke night before last, around 10.15pm with no contractions. she continued to leak fluid yesterday and started having contractions every 3-4 minutes around 1 pm. I arrived at her house at 3pm.
At 9.30 last night, she asked to be checked. 7-8cm, head of first baby […]
spamelita on Jul 02 2007 | Filed under: birth story
mama stone is in labor! today’s strip features the start of her labor…
yay!
(twin mama still hanging on…though it won’t be too funny if the other july mamas have their babies first!)
spamelita on Jun 18 2007 | Filed under: birth story
seems like a run of girls lately!
8lbs 4oz, born early Saturday morning.
spamelita on Jun 15 2007 | Filed under: birth story
born Tuesday, June 12. 9lbs 9oz
one more June mom…and our twin mama will be 37 weeks tomorrow!
spamelita on Jun 05 2007 | Filed under: birth story, midwife practice
Early Saturday morning I received a call from a midwife I know in another state - one of her clients, at almost 39 weeks, was in my area visiting when her water broke! The midwife told me that now the contractions were picking up and she wasn’t going to make it back home in time. […]
spamelita on May 30 2007 | Filed under: birth story, midwife practice
born this morning to a first time mom, due in June, after four hours of intense labor. 5lbs even.
still waiting on that May mom!
spamelita on May 24 2007 | Filed under: birth story, midwife practice
a whirlwind of births on the horizon.
just returned from two births in four hours! one girl born 5/23 around 9.30pm, one boy, born 5/24 1.08am.
spamelita on Apr 25 2007 | Filed under: birth story
I have alot of fondness for Renee and her partner, Lance. I attended births as an apprentice/assistant with both of their children (when they were not together) six and eight years ago. It was fun to see the girls again on a regular basis through our prenatal visits.
Renee’s “due date” was April 14, […]
spamelita on Jul 23 2006 | Filed under: birth story, midwife practice, unassisted birth
Almost two years ago, I had a client who was having her third baby, her first homebirth. It was a huge step for her to even consider homebirth, but she mainly chose it at first because of finances.
So, when she became pregnant with her fourth, she was planning another homebirth like her third. […]
