Beren’s breech birth at home, undiagnosed and wonderful! A wonderful undiagnosed breech birth at home – the best kind! Throughout my pregnancy, we had a feeling that our baby was a boy. It was just a hunch as we opted not to have the 20 week scan and so knew...
Wright Family Stories Dylan’s Birth Story I found out I was pregnant with Dylan while we were living in the UK on a working holiday – we were very excited as we’d planned to start trying and hopefully be pregnant by the time we returned home – we just...
My Bath Baby Indie Bay Dobson was born at 7:20 am on 04/12/11 (40 weeks + 6). A beautiful 7lb 15oz (way bigger than my midwife had anticipated) in my tub at home! 9 hours of established labour. 5-10 minutes of second stage pushing. At about 11:00pm we noticed that the...
Hugo’s Birth Story Birth story of Hugo Sebastian James Davidson, born to Katy and Glenn Davidson on December 23, 2003 at 2.40am, Summer Solstice We were sitting in the lounge eating pizza for tea when I first realised Hugo was definitely on the way. I was eight...
A healing home birth at Dawn, a VBA2C story. By Larissa McCarthy My pregnancy had been pretty straight forward. Being my fourth baby, I was feeling relaxed and just went with the flow for the most part. My first two births had been quite traumatic caesarean births...
Trent’s Birthday After a painful difficult pregnancy, I found myself quite looking forward to labour (and wondering if I should be). I did some reading up, mostly focusing on Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth (which I found extremely helpful), and came to the conclusion...
