Late-Term Switch to Homebirth due to COVID Restrictions at Hospital
Wow- labor, what an experience. We have all heard of COVID by this point. I know the virus impacted a lot of families negatively but it...
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Rachel
- Jun 29, 2020
- 4 min
Unmedicated Hospital Birth With Nurse Midwife
I finally managed to type up a rough draft of the whole birth story for those of you who are interested :) (FYI it's pretty detailed so...
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Rachel
- Jul 7, 2019
- 5 min
Baby N's Natural Hospital VBAC
Baby N was born on June 6 th weighing 8lb. 9oz and 22.5in long. We are so grateful that he was delivered safely and naturally through an...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 4 min
Silas' Home Birth - Rachel's 4th
Silas was born on Wednesday night/Thursday morning 5/12 at 12:03 am. He was born at home and was 7 pounds, 9.5 ounces and 20 inches long....
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 5 min
Rachel's First Birth - Natural Hospital
As Rachel and I began to think more about her pregnancy and the approaching birth, we considered the various methods and techniques of...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 4 min
Annalise's Home Birth - Rachel's 2nd
This is long, so if you want the quick, no-details version: my water starting leaking around 10:30 a.m., midwives came, more people...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 5 min
Micah's Hotel Birth Story (Rachel's 3rd)
Last weekend, Annalise started complaining of abdominal pain and was refusing to eat. It was really bad on Sunday morning, and her...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 4 min
Ehren's Birth - 10 pound baby at Home
After a disappointing hospital birth with my first child, Lily, I decided that there must be a better way for me to have a baby. I talked...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 10 min
Lorelei's Birth - 1-10 cm in 3 hours!
The Pregnancy I was horribly sick from week 4 to about week 26, I got to the point where I just wanted to go to sleep and never wake up,...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 2 min
Abigail's Birth Story
Rachel started having regular contractions beginning around 5:30am on Sunday. We timed the contractions all day but they averaged around...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 3 min
Logan's Birth - Vacuum Extraction
Our little Logan gave us a run for our money and decided to be 11 days late!! Although I felt like I might be going into labor two times...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 7 min
Ellie's Natural Hospital Birth
Ellie Hope arrived Friday, August 19th at 12:34 am weighing 8 pounds, 10.9 ounces and measuring 21.75 inches. We couldn't love her more....
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 3 min
Eli's Hospital Birth
On Wednesday afternoon, we had my weekly appointment with Dr. Jansky and they decided to do a no-stress test (due to being late and also...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 3 min
Gracie's Natural Hospital Birth
Sunday Sept 23, I woke up in such a BAD mood. When I went to use the restroom I believed I had passed my mucus plug. Not sure if it was...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 4 min
Syla's Birth Center Birth - 2 weeks late
First baby Sylas decided to wait 2 weeks past his due date before he wanted to appear. I had an appt with my midwife 6 days before he...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 2 min
Baby B's Birth Story - 4 weeks early
Baby B arrived around 7:40 a.m. on October 11, 2012 weighing 6.5 pounds and measuring 19.5 inches. Wednesday night I started having what...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 2 min
Lillie's Natural Hospital Birth
I woke up around 2-2:30 AM on November 15th with contractions (I was 5 days overdue). I tried sleeping but the contractions were too...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 9 min
Hannah's Birth Story - Epidural & Back Labor
Megan went into labor on Wednesday, 5 June. Her due date, as given by our doctor, was 29 May so each day we were waiting in expectation,...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 3 min
Nora's Birth - Induction for High Blood Pressure
So, when I went in Monday night for my induction due to high blood pressure, I was at 2cm at 8pm. I received my first dose of Cytotec at...
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Rachel
- Mar 17, 2019
- 7 min
Alexia's Hospital Birth 12 days overdue
Alexia was due on Tuesday, 8/4/15. We had several days where we had a small handful of mild but irregular contractions but they would...
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