Preparing for a Healing Birth After Cesarean
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I was a woman of strength, and I got the birth of my dreams.
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Divinely Perfect Waterbirth
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As I look back at my natural/unmedicated birth experience I am overwhelmed with gratitude. It was Divinely PERFECT.
Read MorePushing in the Parking Lot
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René asked me how I was feeling to which I responded with all the grace of a Southern woman in the late stages of labor, “I feel like I have to shit!”
Read MoreBasking in His Mercy
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In reading this, I want God’s name to be the one people remember. This is my story, for His glory.
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Dad's Reflections on Birth
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Looking back to when I first learned Jess was pregnant, most of my attention and delight was focused on that mere fact...that she was able to get pregnant naturally…
Read MoreHigh Risk & Natural
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I always wanted to have an all-natural birth in a midwife-model setting, but after having infertility issues and multiple miscarriages I had seen first-hand how things can go when you have complications.
Read MoreDads & Doulas
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I had never heard of a Doula before my wife suggested we get one for the birth of our first child.
Read MoreBirth Center to Hospital Birth
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I get tearful looking back at my birth experience. It was exciting and powerful! My plan was to have a natural water-birth at the Birth Center of Baton Rouge.
Read MoreA Fullfilling, Healing Birth
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Our birth story begins with our first pregnancy in 2016. I wanted a drug-free birth for as long as I can remember, and I was so excited to be able to give this a try.
Read MoreMy UNduction
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This was my third birth. My first was delivered at 40 weeks and 3 days. It was a 22 hour failed attempt at a natural labor that ended in a c-section. I was with the wrong doctor and I had no support team around me.
Read MoreTreated With Dignity
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Even before I was pregnant, God gave me an innate sense that He empowers women in the process of becoming mothers.
Read MoreKeep Going
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41 weeks and 3 days pregnant, my husband and I were both convinced our baby would never arrive, despite my doctor’s promises that I would NOT be pregnant forever.
Read MoreBirth Wisdom
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Before I went into labor a friend who previously had a natural birth told me
Read MoreRedemptive Birth Experience
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My first labor and delivery was at The Birth Center a little over 4 years ago.
Read MoreRelinquishing Control
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I guess that’s what happens when you relinquish all control and let birth happen in all of its surprising splendor.
Read MoreUnexpected Journey
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Our journey took an unexpected turn when at 41 weeks and 4 days, my water broke without experiencing contractions and I was only 2 cm dilated.
Read MoreEmpowering & Exhausting
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Though both of my births were amazing, this birth was completely different from my first epidural birth. It truly was the most beautiful, exhausting, empowering thing I've ever accomplished.
Read MoreOchsner Water Birth
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People told me that I shouldn’t get my heart set on my birth plan because births never go according to plan, but mine did.
Read MoreI Get It; I'm a Man
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Men are weak in the knees when it comes to natural birth videos and seeing first hand what it takes to give birth, much less to provide verbal and emotional support. I get it; I’m a man. However, I was not weak in the knees after meeting René.
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