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This is a guest post by Monkula. My eldest daughter was born via cesarean in 2007. At the time I didn’t have too many opinions on babies and birth; just some hand-me-down ideas from friends and co-workers about how things could, and were supposed to, go. You go to the hospital. You have the baby. [...]

This post shares Susie’s birth stories of her first child who was born via c-section, and her second child who was born via unmedicated VBAC. Susie’s previous guest posts include Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies? and her Real Registry. ~~ Two years ago, I gave birth to my daughter via emergency c-section. My water [...]

Readers have requested more birth stories, so I asked my friend Kristin of Petal and Thorn to share her home water birth story! ~~~ Two weeks before Siena’s due date, my midwife Lisa checked me out and told me exciting things were happening.  She said that if I were an avocado, I’d be guacamole; that’s [...]

This is part 2 of Rubies’ birth story. You can read Part 1 here. The hour following the birth of Baby R was chaos. Absolute chaos.  BR had meconium (first baby poop) on her as she entered the world and there was a slight concern about that, but we all soon found out that it [...]

This birth story comes to us from one of our hostesses, Rubies! ~~~ The story of Baby R’s birth is very generic.  There was no drama, no scary moments, nothing unusual or interesting, really. When I retell the story to people it seems a little boring — not that I would want it any other [...]

This is a guest post by Laura of The Zhukeepers. She previously blogged about her breastfeeding saga here. Now that Sam is nearing 16 months old… I’m finally writing up his birth story! I actually started keeping a few little notes in my phone near the end of my pregnancy, and I kind of like [...]