Every birth holds its own story I was really excited to have a home birth but for my first, it didn’t pan out so for my second, I was determined! I had to change midwives as my first one decided she didn’t feel safe doing a homebirth which was a huge disappointment...

Nicole's Home Birth Journey The birth of my second child, natural, at home and unmedicated. Just how I hoped. My labour progress slowly, intensity increasing and settling again. When night time hit and I said goodnight to my first born, my body and mind knew I could...

Lucia's Two Special Home Births I’d love to share my two home birth stories with you…  I come from South America, where home birth is quite rare and C-sections are very common. Now I live in Queenstown, where we only have a maternity unit, not a full hospital. That...

Home Birth of Ted (Teddy) Jett Jamieson I have never been comfortable in hospitals, so in 2021 when we found out we were pregnant with our first baby we went all in planning for a homebirth.  We attended Hapu Wananga, NP Parents centres antenatal and Hypnobirthing to...

Tayla Donaldson’s Healing Home Birth I went to bed on my due date feeling at peace that my baby hadn’t come yet. After going 6 days over with my first I had let all expectations go and snuggled down next to my two year old Daisy and husband Logan. A few hours later at...

I sat in the rocking chair, and turned on the labour and birth track of my special relaxation and affirmation CD that was lent to me by Aileen Devonshire as part of the Holistic Birth course we had been going to for the last few weeks…

I had always liked the idea of a homebirth. Most people’s default option seems to be a hospital birth, and yet, I have never met anyone who has regretted their decision to have a home birth. As the weeks progressed, the idea of a home birth became…

3 weeks into a level four country wide lockdown when I felt the first stirrings. I was snuggled up on the couch with my children watching a movie, very subtle, barely noticeable. That evening after we put the older children to bed, we set up the pool…

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, could prepare me for what motherhood has been thus far. Everything has taught me something new about myself, and I have had to dig to the depths of my inner warrior more times than I can count…

Home birth has it’s own set of details to sort out. With my first two births I never dreamed of having a massive support crew, or that I would be comfortable having anyone else there at all. But because it was at my house, it didn’t seem so weird…

Nobody else entered that bathroom. It was private and safe and everything I had hoped that we could achieve within a hospital setting. Soon the contractions began to climb on top of each other and I was completely overwhelmed by the strength…