To listen to this episode, and more than 300 other birth stories in The Birth Hour archives, join our listener supporter group here! Vaginal Twin Birth with Baby B Breech Toniette was so surprised to learn that she was having twins! She had previously had homebirths and knew that with twins she would be in […]
To listen to this episode, and more than 300 other birth stories in The Birth Hour archives, join our listener supporter group here! Episode 100 with Megan Tietz I’m so excited to share today’s episode with all you—Episode 100!! So crazy to be saying that and we have the wonderful Megan Tietz on the show […]
Today’s birth story episode features, Jesse Coulter who is going to share the stories of both her son, born at a birth center and her twins who were born vaginally in a hospital. The twins’ birth story is fast and furious as they arrived before the hospital staff even had a change to put the IV in Jesse.
Ashlee, of the 4th Trimester Bodies Project, shares the story of her son’s birth who was born premature at 28 weeks as well as her twin daughters’ birth who suffered from TTTS and were born at 24 weeks. Ashlee’s daughter Aurora didn’t survive and her daughter Nova spent 100 days in the NICU. These stories are intense and have moments of deep sadness so if you are not in the right frame of mind to listen to them right now please pass over this episode and come back to it when you are ready.
In this episode of The Birth Hour, Kimberly Sherman shares the birth story of her twin boys. It’s crazy to me that this was the first time that I actually heard a vaginal twin birth story. I know there are plenty of women who give birth to their twins vaginally but I just hadn’t met one yet, so this was a really special conversation to me.
Katy has given birth to two sons, and their birth stories were both remarkably similar and wildly different! In both of her births, Katy was supported by midwives in a hospital setting and was able to use water immersion and nitrous oxide for coping. Her first was an unplanned but joyful pregnancy, culminating in a […]
Rachael’s first birth was a 9 hr unmedicated labor and delivery, but then two months later she had two craniotomies to remove a subdural hematoma. Despite that jarring postpartum experience, she was eager to have another baby, so right around her daughter’s first birthday Rachael and Zane were excited to find out they were pregnant […]
Michelle Coles is the mother of 5 boys between the ages of 10 and 7 weeks, no twins included. Each birth was a unique experience. All births were vaginal. Her first three were born in hospitals and her last two were born at home with midwives. She was in labor with her first son for […]
After an unplanned cesarean with her first baby and a successful VBAC with her twins, Kalen she describes her third birth and postpartum experience as her easiest and most rewarding. Her third induction resulted in a precipitous unplanned unmedicated birth which made for an uncomplicated recovery and a wonderful end to her pregnancies and births. She […]
After two years of no periods, countless doctors’ appointments and testing, Monica was told she and her husband, Alex, would need to pursue fertility treatments in order to have a biological child. Despite having always wanted to be parents, Monica and Alex decided to wait on fertility treatments and focus on other areas of their […]
In 2016 Jane and Dylan felt like it was the right time to start a family. They begin trying to get pregnant in January and in July of that year, Jane decided it would be smart to get her thyroid looked at. She was told to lose weight, see a sleep specialist and start meeting […]
Brett and her husband went through two IUIs and 5 rounds of IVF. On their fourth round they had two viable embryos and both transfers eventually became her two sons. Brett says the experience of going through IVF nearly broke her but just before it did it she fought back and ending up learning things about […]
