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Today, Powerful Mothering celebrates mothers everywhere by showcasing their first born birth stories. We hope to enlighten and share with those who are not yet mothers as well as those who are on to their 2nd, 3rd and even 7th babies!
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers — strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.” ― Barbara Katz Rothman
Nicolette from Powerful Mothering
Sometimes life throws you a curve ball. My pregnancy had gone almost perfect. There I was, 2 weeks until my due date and off for my last ultrasound. I would have never dreamt that my home birth would be scrapped in the coming hour. I had even booked the birthing pool! That had a non refundable deposit! Read Nicolette’s “A Birth Story – My First Born – The Breech Baby” story here.
Making a decision to have a child-it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” –Elizabeth Stone
Sarah from My Merry Messy Life
One a.m. Sunday morning, tiny contractions began. By Sunday night they had intensified, but still weren’t regular or very strong. My mom, Kevin and I spent the day walking, walking, and more walking to get labor moving. Read Sarah’s “My Almost-Natural, Quite Traumatic Birth Story” story here.
Heidi from Powerful Mothering
At my gynae appt at 38 weeks, I was told I was 1cm dilated, and she’d be expecting to see me by Wednesday (it was Monday that day) to have baby. I was so excited!! On Wednesday (clever doctor!) I lost my plug, but had no show, and my waters didn’t break, so I sms’d the gynae to ask what I should do. She told me to come into the hospital for a checkup. Read Heidi’s Birth Story – Ethan (4 Feb 09) story here.
Jacquelyn from Little Owl Crunchy Momma
Pregnancy is such a vulnerable experience. I loved being pregnant but I felt like seeing pictures of what I looked like at that time could never come close to capturing how peaceful, excited, and anticipatory I felt inside. Read Jacquelyn’s “The Day She Was Born” story here.
“Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.” ― Shan Sa, Empress
Natasha from South Africa
You experience so many emotions when you find out you pregnant, your happy, excited, then suddenly nervous, scared all in one, just by looking at that little stick “shouting” +. Then suddenly dawns on you, you are caring a little human being, growing, developing, alive in you, and all the nervous, scared feelings disappear. Read Natasha’s “My Preemie Miracle” story here.
Julie from Mommy the Iconoclast
People’s reactions to learning that I was planning on having a natural birth varied. A lot of people thought it courageous (read naive) to choose to endure that kind of pain. I had heard the horror stories about the intense pain, seen the women on television blaming their husbands as they screamed in agony. Admittedly, it did not look like a lot of fun. Read Julie’s “The Story of Maya’s Birth” story here.
Cheryl from Birth of a Mum
Once I got home I did everything I could to just get through each contraction. I used the TENS machine, which was strange and didn’t seem to help much. I took about 100 baths, tried to rest and listen to my yoga music, rocked on my birth ball. The contractions were increasing in intensity but still weren’t regular. Read Cheryl’s “my birth story – nathan william” story here.
Illiterati from Mothering
After a very easy pregnancy where the biggest bother I had was heartburn (apparently that would mean Isaac would have lots of hair) I was wondering if my luck would hold out or if the universe would decide to balance things out with a horrible labor or some other type of bad luck. I was also convinced that the baby would come late, or you know, not at all and I would just be pregnant forever. Read ‘s “Isaac’s looong, slow,very gentle birth’ story here.
Redditerrrr from Baby Bumps
On Monday 12/31 I went to my doctor for an NST since Wesley was 10 days overdue at that point. I had a feeling that they left me hooked up long enough to find a reason to induce me, and sure enough, that’s what happened. After 30 minutes or so, I had an unusual contraction – very long and drawn out. Read Redditerrrr’s “Wesley’s Birth Story – my New Year’s baby” story here.
Shortest Birth Story
SweetRight from Baby Bumps
Short birth story.. Went in to be induced Friday night was slow starting had my water broke in the morning. I think I slept through everything except the pushing part because I don’t remember anything lol. Read Sweetright’s “Meet Madison” story here.
A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. – unknown
Thank you for stopping by and reading this beautiful collection of motherhood. We would love for you to add your story in the comments as well.
Amy Owen says
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Erica says
Thank you so much for letting me be apart of this. All of these stories are inspiring!
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ToscaSac says
My “baby” is now learning to drive. When I blogged our birth story it took three posts. lol
Gemma says
Beautiful! I love reading others experiences of birth, so special! I love the quote at the top of the page too! 🙂
Dani @ okdani.com says
Thank you for featuring my son Rohan’s birth story! I’m enjoying reading through all the other stories! I’ll be tweeting/FBing this post for you.
Nicolette Roux says
Thank you for letting me! <3