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Birthing the biggest baby she has attended – Home birth of Alexander George

June 21, 2017 By Katrina Velgush

Forty weeks came and went with baby number 6 but I didn’t think much of it. I was cranky, sore and huge but only one of my previous babes had come on 40 weeks, the rest were closer to 41 so I knew I still had. At least a week of being cranky. I went […]

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A Beautiful, Blissful, Pain-Free Birth

February 16, 2016 By Katrina Velgush

As I got out of bed on a beautiful Tuesday morning, I felt the sensation of water trickling down my leg. With unparalleled excitement and elation, I called out to my husband in the other room, knowing that my journey was about to begin. Not for a minute that day did I feel doubt or […]

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So proud and happy that I was able to achieve the birth naturally and drug free

July 25, 2015 By Katrina Velgush

At the beginning of my pregnancy I never really thought about a natural drug free birth.. What I did know was I was a complete sook when it came to pain, and I couldn’t even handle a needle or blood test.. However this pregnancy and birth definitely changed my confidence in my willpower. My cousin […]

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