Olly was born on International Midwives’ Day 2012. My husband, Olly and I had the perfect labour and birth for us. It was the ultimate experience in healing, faith, love, empowerment, fulfilment, patience and inner awakening. From conception and beyond, I felt intense gratitude for being privileged with the ability to grow and birth our […]
Melina’s 2 VBAC Birth Stories
Eden’s Birth Story A bit about my story first. My son, born January 2007, was an elective c-section as I didn’t believe that I could give birth naturally. When he was 4 months old, I realised what a huge mistake I had made, and that my next birth would be a natural birth. I fell pregnant […]
Priya’s Birth As Told By Her Dad
Labor started happening while Daniel was blissfully asleep. At 2:20am. – Daniel woken up. Contractions around 5 minutely, assured they were not Braxton Hicks. Someone said “Let’s try and sleep for a bit, you know, get some rest while we can. I can remember a midwife saying this…” Two idiots lying like adrenalin-filled time bombs, […]
Caroline’s Birth Story
When I caught up with my midwife Monday morning, little did I know that I would be seeing her again later that night. All afternoon I just couldn’t sit still, I mentioned to my husband that I was feeling “crampy” and being 41+ weeks had me noticing every little change in my body and I […]
Holly’s Birth
My water broke in bed at around midnight on Tuesday morning. I had been cramping and tried but mostly failed to sleep the rest of the night. I did manage a couple of hours and when I woke up there was no more cramping but fluid still coming out in small gushes. That stayed the […]
Marisha’s Story
This was my third baby but a very special baby as my second died of SIDS and this was my first child to my husband, Miah. I was extremely impatient ,I just wanted labor to happen. As I’d not gone full term with my others the last 6 weeks were very hard for me. Monday […]