Birth Stories

Thank you, Amy, for sharing your Kentucky Home Birth Story. This story begins weeks before my due date. I was feeling particularly sick of being pregnant. This is a feeling I was not  unfamiliar with, but I had hit the proverbial wall much sooner than in previous pregnancies. A combination of fatigue, extreme heartburn, pelvic pain, and being the primary caregiver for two young children likely contributed. I’m not a huge fan of cervical checks before the due date because…

Thank you, Briana, for sharing your Louisville-area home birth story. The Birth of Eldon If only we could write our birth stories before the birth, you know, back when we had time for such frivolities as writing.  But since that’s impossible, here I am, nearly a year post-birth, finally writing about it. Where does this birth story begin?  When I first found out I was pregnant?  When I told my partner and his bliss met my nervousness?  When I first felt like something was…

Thank you, Jimi for sharing your central-Kentucky Home Birth story! At 11pm, October 17, 2010, I was saying goodnight to my husband. He was rubbing my belly and telling our baby that any time now would be OK to be born. I was having Braxton Hicks contractions, but nothing regular or even intense. I told him I felt our time was up for maternity photos. It seemed any day our child would come. Not today, mind you, but soon. The…