Don’t want an unnecessary c-section, but still plan to birth in a hospital? Then, you owe it to yourself to find out the cesarean section rate at the hospital where you anticipate delivering your child. According to an article published in the medical journal Health Affairs this month, “vast differences in practice patterns are …
I need to preface this entire post by saying, I gave birth all three times in a hospital and a doctor assisted my births. I’d love to tell you that next time I will deliver the old fashioned way, with a midwife by my side, but there won’t be a …
Most of us know what a hospital birth looks like. There is medical equipment strapped everywhere. Women generally keep the lights dim, except for the bright spotlight shining at the birth canal welcoming her baby ever so boldly from her warm dark sanctuary. There’s bleached white sheets, that don’t fool anyone for …
When I tell my birth story to some people they just can’t believe that I carried twins for 37 weeks thinking there was only one baby in there. They ask “weren’t you really big?” No. “Couldn’t you feel a lot of movement?” Kind of. But I had nothing to relate …
A safe and healthy birth is what is most important to us here at Everything Birth. We do encourage childbearing women to make informed choices and never compromise the health of herself or the baby she is carrying. Less than 2 percent of American women birth at home. And when …
A healthy pregnant woman should be birthing at home. I don’t understand the response “I just feel safer in the hospital”. When your chances of a hospital cesarean are closing in on 35% in this country. One of the highest cesarean rates of civilized countries. The homebirth cesarean rate is …
Each week I will feature a Midwife, Doula, Birth Center, Child Birth Educator. This week I have for you Eunice Romero. Take a peek at what Eunice has in her birth kit. Eunice Romero Birth Kit …An ancient river of blood will flow on through me. …
My birth plan was thrown out the window as soon as we were risked out of home birth at 39 weeks. I thought we had everything in place. Even though we found out we were having twins when I was 37 weeks, our midwife assisted home water birth was still …
Part of the reason I was risked out of the homebirth of my first pregnancy was because one of my twins was breech and twisted in the umbilical cord. When we went in to see the OB he told us that if I went home to wait for natural labor …
My midwife told me once that being a mother is the hardest job you will ever love. Boy is that true. I had no idea what she meant at the time because I was pregnant with my firsts, but the day I had my girls I knew exactly what she …
