Hello, my name is Les Brown. I’m from Scottsville (Southern Ky), and I’m a 5th generation hog and cattle farmer. I have 1 daughter, Marley Ann Brown. My wife and I planned a home birth with CPMs in the summer of 2014. When my wife and I realized we wanted home birth to always be an option for us and our fellow rural farm families, we decided to make volunteering for KHBC a family priority. I can’t leave the farm…
Hi there! My name is Leacoln Bale, and I volunteer for the Kentucky Home Birth Coalition. I’m an eastern Kentucky native who packed up and moved to the big city of Louisville. Here, I met and married my husband and gave birth to our first child, Ellie, at home. My husband and I are currently expecting our second child and are planning another CPM-attended home birth this winter. I first became interested in home birth when I found that my wishes and…
Thank you for sharing your story, Crystal! There I was, four days past my “due date” on a very hot August night. My husband was working in the room next to me, and I was bouncing away on my exercise ball. I stood up and had a twinge of pain that stopped me in my tracks; I had no idea that was the start of my labor. We began to eat supper while watching our favorite show. I was so…