birth

When you're pregnant you are probably spending some time thinking about your upcoming labor. What are your options? What are your plans? You might be thinking through all the different scenarios, and trying to decide what you might do in any given situation.You may have already spoken with your partner, and the people you have invited to your birth, trying to work out what might happen. Of course you won't know until you're in the middle of it, but that doesn't stop us from wondering.

Heather (who does the Hathor the Cow Goddess comics) blogged her baby's birth. In semi-comic form. Go check it out.

http://www.mama-is.com/the-birth-story-of-ean-campbell/

Makes it sound like you're in control of them, doesn't it? ;)

Actually, the Contraction Master is "your free contraction timing assistant" for the tech-savvy among us. With your computer at your birth (or iPhone), this is a very simple way to time contractions, if you're into that sort of thing. It's basically a stopwatch with a history, developed by a husband who wanted to spend less time writing and more time helping his wife through her labor.

So, last night my daughters (1,4) and I watched Orgasmic Birth during PinkPeas movie night.  It was a great movie depicting normal birth.  Isabela, my four year old will surely be a midwife by the time she is twelve.  She helped to catch her baby sister and has stated that she does not need our midwives help in catching this baby.  She enjoys listening to "baby sounds" and palpating moms bellies during prenatal times.  She loves watching birth videos and asks for them at home like other children ask for their favorite cartoon.  She is a birth advocate

I am a Christian, wife to Norm and mother to four: Glen (5), Tasha (3), Jamie, and baby Lorelai. It was an honor to be asked to work with Corrrine and the other ladies in the Pinkpeas family. Pinkpeas is just the right home for some of my many interests. We are a homebirthing/waterbirthing family. I am a La Leche League Leader.

Our daughter Isabela was born September 14, 2004. Isabela was born in the hospital. We had the best hospital birth experience one could pray to have and we will never do it again God willing! I like to say that we really just paid to rent the room at the hospital, they left us alone for the most part which is exactly what we wanted. For that money we could have had her at the Four Seasons!

So, here is Liliana's birth story as written by my amazing wonderful midwife Corrine, I love hearing it from your perspective! I will preface it by saying this was our first homebirth, our amazing daughter Isabela was born naturally in the hospital. My husband will say that the most powerful aspect of our homebirth as compared with our hospital birth was how empowered we were as parents.

Today is the 12th birthday of my first baby. My husband, Frank and I were 20 years old when she was born. He was in the Air Force and we lived at Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas. All of our family was back home in San Diego, Ca. So, we were on our own to experience this new adventure of becoming parents.

Callie's Birth

I was 17 years old when I had my first baby.

Pregnancy, birth, and babies had always been an interest of mine, for some reason. Fortunately, this led me to devour dozens of books, and I discovered the concept of midwives.

I chose the busiest Nurse-Midwife in town, Janet, and planned to deliver at the hospital. I enjoyed my prenatal visits very much. Janet treated me with all the respect any adult could have expected, and displayed nothing but confidence in my abilities to birth and care for a baby.