I really was completely clueless as to what to expect before I gave birth to my first child, Amber. Having had little experience around babies or younger kids meant that I really thought it was going to be a piece of cake. I even remember thinking that I’d come home post-birth to continue renovating our […]
Positive Birth Stories
The miracle of an empowering birth
I have given birth 5 times now, the first without understanding how a woman can be empowered in her birthing experience and not really understanding the term intervention. Intervention: to ‘speed things up,’ ‘get things moving,’ ‘stop the pain.’ Intervention: to make my birthing experience fit everyone’s needs – everyone that is except for my […]
Emerging from the depths – wholly new, empowered, enlightened.
The Emergence of Nell As far as pregnancies go, my fourth was fairly fantastically normal and “by the book” compared to the other three previous. Morning sickness abated by 12ish weeks, and things flowed fairly normally. I was relieved not to have Hyperemesis Gravardium this pregnancy. Despite being hospitalised for kidney stone removal surgery and […]
Surrending to the amazing process my body was in after an unexpected turn of events
After a text book home birth for our first child I, of course, thought that our second child would enter the world much the same way. I had the midwives organized and the pool set up. The birth ‘room’ was all prepared and our 4yr old son was ready and eager to see his sibling […]
I felt triumphant after my VBAC!
Miranda’s birth story has to start with some background information and a bit of her big brother’s story. We had planned an all-natural, drug-free hospital birth and had taken Bradley Classes when I was pregnant with Dustin. Unfortunately, the hospital staff didn’t like how slow my labor progressed and coerced us into interventions we never […]
A Smooth and Easy Hospital Birth: Katia’s Story
I spent most of the time during labour in the shower, chatting with my doula. I stayed there until i was well and truly bearing down, at which point I got back out to push” ~ Katia describes her empowering hospital birth experience in the 20th insight of A Modern Woman’s Guide to a Natural […]