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,...
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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...
I Could Do This Again and Again: Allegra's Redeeming Birth of Gianna Kathryn
The excitement of knowing we were pregnant with our second child was amazing. We were thrilled throughout the pregnancy and couldn’t wait...
Trust and Laughter in the Wandering: Hannah's Fourth Home Birth with a Challenging Labor
November 11, 2020 I stared at the positive pregnancy test and started crying. My husband would be ordained a Catholic priest in eight...
The Power of Spiritual Birth Prep: Caroline's Natural Hospital Birth of Second Baby Eleanor Therese
My son and daughter were born almost exactly 2 years apart. They were caught by the same OB, in the same hospital, even in the same exact...
Radical Surrender - Mary's Home Birth After Cesarean With a Special Scar
Mary's first birth shares about a traumatic cascade of interventions that may be difficult if you are in a sensitive place preparing for...
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