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"Writing out the tale of Dodie Rae's birth has been a beautiful, reflective experience. Reading other people's birth stories helped me to prepare for birth, so I'm sharing this here to hopefully reassure someone else and help you feel prepared too. This is a story of a positive planned caesarean of a breech baby, but that's not the story I thought I'd be writing. I'd heavily researched our options and home birth felt like the right thing for us to try. My partner Jamie has tw

A long story about a short birth. I’m writing this almost four months later, with the babe in question snoring and snuffling on my chest....

"Almost as soon as I knew I was pregnant I had a strong instinct that I didn't want to go into hospital to give birth. I am a registered nurse and I knew that the hospital setting would feel too much like being at work for me to relax. At the first midwife appointment, my lovely, very supportive midwife gave me some information about different birth options and the idea of a home birth became really concrete for me. A work colleague had had two home births and was very positi

This is Hollies amazing birth story! Buckle up it is a good one. She practiced pregnancy yoga and hypnobirthing in pregnancy and I loved...

"Since doing my hypnobirthing course, I felt confident heading into my birth. I even felt quite excited. I finished work and started...

As a first time Mum I was expecting to have my baby sometime around 41 weeks. I had my home birth all planned and had just tested the...