Part I: Skin-to-Skin, Mama-to-Mama When you can successfully charge a person money to hold their own baby, you have really made it in the world of business. You have probably heard about the couple who found a $39 charge for skin-to-skin time in the operating room on their bill. It’s an evil genius model, but it’s […]
Sacrificial Birth
Perhaps you've seen the empathy video circulating the web; the one where the sad fox is in a hole and some well-intentioned mammal comes along, pokes her head down the hole and asks if the sad one wants a sandwich? Great video. One of the things the video emphasizes is the unfeeling way we have [...]
Birth Of A Breech & Head-Down baby
Elisabeth’s first baby was breech, and mybreechbaby’s first birth story. She recently had her second baby (a vbac), and here she shares some of her story. She has experienced labor and pushing with both a breech and head-down baby, so I wanted to know more of her experiences and thoughts. Tell us briefly about your breech birth. […]
Breech Journey With A Fifth Baby
Here is a friend of mine who recently gave birth to her footling breech. I hope I have not been spreading breech vibes to babies around me! She wrote her birth story because breech mamas need more people who can hear them and understand them. Those of you who planned or wanted natural births but […]
When you fail at birth
Maria had a successful VBAC! Awesome! Bekka didn’t. Bekka tried but had an unsuccessful VBAC. Her birth was a failure. Bekka failed. Although “successful VBAC” or “successful natural birth” or even “71% of women who planned it were successful in having a vaginal breech birth” sounds like positive language, it’s actually fraught with emotionally damaging […]
