Birth Stories

Night and Day: Julia's Dreamy and Transformative Home Birth After Cesarean

My firstborn came during the height of the covid pandemic. At my very first appointment, my OB saw a small subchorionic hematoma on my...

Victorious Fiat: Clarisse's Switch to Home for the Birth of Loretta Rose

God’s love for us is so infinite and unconditional that He gave up his power and might, and came to us as a vulnerable Child. This is how...

From Fear to Faith: Mackenzie's Journey from Unnecessary Induction to a Beautiful and Redemptive Birth Center Birth

This is the story of my amazing, easy(!), redemptive birth of my second daughter. But to understand that birth, you have to know the...

Trust Into Confidence: Megan's Redemptive Home Birth of Lucy Jean

After my first birth, I knew I wanted the second birth to be different. I was induced at 40 weeks with my first, because a 3rd trimester...

Biggest Baby, Easiest Birth: Gloria's Home Water Birth of Her Fifth Baby

My previous labor with number four was after experiencing the loss of our twins, two weeks of intense and unrelenting prodromal labor,...

Calm and Unafraid: Briana's Simple, Normal, Beautiful Birth of Baby Helen

A little backstory: My first birth, with our son James was in June of 2021 and was an uneventful, normal, healthy, entirely unmedicated...

Heaven So Close: Margot's Healing, Joyful, and Fun Unmedicated Birth in the Hospital

This is the story of the birth of our miracle baby, Dominic Joseph. We struggled with infertility after the loss of our first born, Micah...

"Do You Trust Me?" - Claire's Redeeming VBAC of Baby Daniel in the "Wrong" Hospital

The story of my second birth really starts two and a half years earlier with the story of my first birth. In May 2021, I gave birth to my...

He Will Give Us What We Need: Theresa's Home Water Birth of Third Baby Trenton

Theresa shared with us her first birth story here. Today we're excited to share her most recent birth, her third son born at home! I...

A Birth of Renewal and Healing: Rachel's VBA2C in the Hospital

In order to truly appreciate the events of our third labor and delivery, it’s helpful to flashback a few years to where our journey of...

The Spirit as Advocate and Guide: Aurora's Surprise Breech Birth at Home

I'll save you the suspense and deliver the punchline now - fourth baby, discovered breech after my water had already broken, born at...

Trust in Me: Rose's Redemptive and Nearly Pain-Free Birth Center Birth of Henry Wayne

After my daughter Eleanor turned 18 months, my husband and I decided that we wanted to try for our second baby. We were surprised when we...

Beautiful, Holy, and Undisturbed: Ani's Birth at Home with Baby Levi After Loss

First a little backstory: I had three hospital births prior to my home birth. Each of them were pretty smooth, fairly quick labors, and I...

Sacred and Peaceful - Olivia's Birth of Baby Enda

In the Fall of 2021 at an Irish Festival, I went to watch an acoustic guitar set by a man named Enda Reilly. I found myself sitting there...

Rejecting Fear and Discerning Options: Allie's Home Birth of First Baby Raphaella

Allie previously shared her second birth story with Made for This Birth. You can find that story here! Our Discernment to Homebirth We...

A Passion Born: Claire's Natural Hospital Birth of Baby Sebastian

In order to fully understand the birth story of my little Sebastian, I would like to share the heartbreak and hope that led us to him. In...

Relief and Disbelief: Lily's Unexpected Unassisted Birth of First Baby Eleanor

The story of Eleanor’s accidental unassisted birth is amazing and beautiful but also took time to process and work through for both my...

Surrendering and Switching: Allegra's Choice to Birth Azélie Marie at Home

Allegra shared the beautiful and redemptive story of her second birth in our last birth story post that you can read here. Today she's...