Aubrie’s birth story – HBAC! (home birth after caesarean) Aubrie is my second child. My first, Cohen, was planned to be a home birth, with no interventions. I trusted that my body and my baby knew what to do to birth naturally. However at 20 weeks we found out that...
Alex’s Birth Story By Alice Brooking Photos are by Recollections Photography I will start by saying everything I expected about his birth did not happen! I was expecting a shorter labour than what I had with Thomas (my first child-6 hours start to finish) but...
George’s Birth Story We bought a housebus, an 1954 Bedford SB3, off some family friends whose gypsy travelling days were behind them. It was set up with everything – bedroom, kitchen, bathroom – but it had been quietly rusting away, leaking in the rain, musty...
Birth of Bali Rose By Keely B Birth was not something we talked about in our home growing up, in fact I remember feeling scared about giving birth before I was even a teenager. I had seen it movies; a woman in hospital screaming, sweating, begging for drugs,...
Kahu’s Birth Story In March, a positive pregnancy test confirmed that we were expecting. I was really nervous throughout the first 3 months because I had had a miscarriage at around 8 weeks just 2 months earlier. We found out the sex early at our 15-week scan...
Jasmin’s Birth Story Raglan was very conducive to a fantastic summer pregnancy. Most days were spent devouring every book from the Homebirth library on the deck of my house. If it was just too hot another expectant mum and I headed to the beach, dug holes...
