Aria’s Birth Sean had arrived 10 days late, but with Jess coming 5 days early I was certain that Aria would arrive before her due date as well, especially as her head was fully engaged at 35 weeks. Alas, she had other ideas, so when I was 40 weeks and 6 days, I...
Baby M’s Birth Story From the time I first knew I was pregnant I wanted to give birth at home if I could. A hospital environment just didn’t sound attractive and my research into home births showed that it was at least as safe as a hospital birth. I also didn’t...
Thomas’s Birth Story On Sunday, the 25th we were still organising the last wee things. Grand-Nev came around in the morning and put the security locks on the windows. I wondered sometimes if it was like he was waiting for everything to be done! In the afternoon Paul...
Ruby’s Birth Story Ruby Mae was born at home, early, in fact. I had an appointment with my midwife that day to finalise the birthing plan (we had roughly planned it but today was the pen to paper day) and was going to make a playlist on my iPod!! I’m not much...
Hales Family stories A Blessed and Sacred Birth On Sunday evening just after 6pm on the 4th September 2005 as I sat outside with Daniel and our friend Steve who was staying the weekend, I felt a “show” and knew that baby would soon be on its way. It came as a...
Nikau Grew Me By Roxy Bretton Being pregnant with our second child is as good a prompt as any to finally write Nikau’s birth story… Our path to home birth I’d had no previous birth experience. However, I had a friend who had had a home birth and spoke about it like it...
