Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Birth Story of the Week
I saw this amazing birth story on The Unnecesarean yesterday (have you subscribed to that blog yet? Because it is awesome -- one of my favorites on the topic of birth) and I felt that I had to share it. What a beautiful journey this video depicts. It got me thinking about all the interesting, informative, inspiring birth stories that are out there, and how cool it could be to explore some of them on Marvelous Kiddo. So consider this the first installment in a regular feature on my blog: "Birth Story of the Week"! On that note, I would love to hear YOUR birth stories...so if you feel like sharing, email me at leigh(at)leighpennebaker(dot)com. Thanks!
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so inspiring...i know if i ever get pregnant again i will try for another home birth.
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ReplyDeletethat made me cry... first, tears of sadness and then joy. what a powerful story!
ReplyDeleteThat WAS an amazing story!!! I cried a number of times. Wow...
ReplyDeleteI, too, was only twenty and sadly very ignorant when my first was born. By God's grace, though, I pushed him out vaginally on his due date (I had mild toxemia and was induced as well as given a necessary epidural - to speed things along... boo rats boo) and my son weighed 9lbs 12oz!!! He was so beautiful and perfect. After having him come out "so large" I was told by the nurse that if I did get pregnant again I should try to be induced or otherwise a few weeks in advance. That advice sat so badly with me that I wanted to scream in her face. There I was nursing my beautiful son that I had only moments ago successfully pushed out and not had cut out of me, and she was telling me that???
When I had my second five years later, it just so happened (now living in a new state all of the way across the country) that I was blessed, when asking about which OB I ought to see, to meet only women who had their babies at birthing centers or via midwives - very foreign to me. VERY. But, I was also interested in this as a friend had had her baby at home a year before, and could talk of nothing but how wonderful it was. AND I was becoming very good friends with a woman who had given birth to her FOUR beautiful children in the comfort of her home and with the help of her husband and midwife.
So, off to the Bethesda birthing center I went. And I've had two other kids naturally (one weighing 9lbs 2.5oz and the other weighing 8.5lbs) with a midwife (and once with the loving aid of three midwives at a time on a peaceful Easter morning) and don't ever plan to look back - EVER.
Sorry this comment got so long. Not intentional, I assure you!!! You know how it is. Labor and delivery stories. They just flow from ya once you get started :O)
Amazing story, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThat was so beautiful and so inspiring. Amazing photographs as well thank you for sharing this x
ReplyDeleteWeird, I know her sister! I thought she looked familiar right away as I started watching the video! Beautiful story!
ReplyDeleteMAGNIFICENT!!
ReplyDeleteI sobbed.
ReplyDeleteI see stories like this and I am so thankful that I had such a positive birthing experience (Tallahassee Memorial Hospital) But if I ever have another baby it HAS to be with a midwife.
crying!
ReplyDeleteOne of my pre-natal students is pregnant with her second baby and has been told by her doctor that her body doesn't know how to labour...because she was induced with her first and nothing happened. I get really confronted by how many women hand over their birth to their doctors.
But, as the movie said: one women and one birth at a time, things can change.
Thanks so much for posting this, leigh x
Thank you for posting this. It was amazing!
ReplyDeleteit's a lovely idea to make this serie of posts! I always always always cry when I read about home birth... so much that I am thinking about to start to study midwifery... and to find the way how to convine it with the acupuncture I already do :)
ReplyDeletekisses,
Sara
Thank you Leigh for sharing that amazing story! I am sitting here the night before my "guess date" and that was exactly the inspiration I needed. I think I was openly weeping through most of it!
ReplyDeletei loved reading this amazing story, but at the same time, i feel like my amazing story of a hospital birth is being taught as the lesser way than a home birth. i labored in a jacuzzi tub, and sitting on the toilet leaning against my husband (places i had chosen) and vaginally delivered a chubby, healthy 8lb 11 oz 22 inch long baby girl with no drugs. i look forward to june when i get to do it it again, with my doctor there along the way, in a hospital. beautiful, inspiring "natural" births, can (and do!) happen even in clinical settings!
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