I did it! She is here and two weeks early to boot! I was so impatient and miserable and cranky. I wanted this pregnancy to be over and now looking back it seems to have flown by. Here is Ivy’s birth story. I wrote this hours after her birth while everything was still fresh. I woke up at 3:39 a.m. because I was uncomfortable. As I was laying there I felt a very strange feeling. It was like a plop…
Born to Laura and John ~ 7 lbs. 3 ozs I woke up in a really grumpy mood on Thursday. My due date was supposed to be Wed. and I was sure I would not go past. In fact I expected to go two weeks earlier like with my other children but here I was, a day past my due date and mad at everyone! I woke at 5am and couldn’t sleep but not because of contractions. I was restless…
I was 40 weeks pregnant and had been having braxton hicks contractions for about a month already, but I noticed something different about them at dinner the night before William was born. While we were all out looking at Christmas lights after dinner I realized that they were coming a steady 30 minutes apart. […]
River was an unexpected blessing for Dan and me. It’s not that Dan and I hadn’t talked about having children, but that children were always futuristic. As in, sometime in a land very far away we would have seven children and live in a cabin in the woods. […]
Editor’s Note: Patti gave birth to Finney vaginally after two c-sections! Finney was her first vaginal delivery and she has had two more home births since Finney’s birth. Dear Finney, I want to tell you about the day you were born. It began on a Wednesday morning. Daddy and I had decided not to go to church that night because we had so many errands to get done in town and since he’d worked late Monday and Tuesday,…
The road to Beth and her apprentices was a long one. This was my second pregnancy and had had a rather unsatisfying pregnancy and birth of my first child. With my first child I saw an obgyn. Midwifery wasn’t big in Las Vegas Nevada. So I had no clue it even existed. The care I received was brief and she wasn’t really concerned about me just my baby. Her office was always packed and it seemed like she didn’t have…
As I sit and begin to write our story, I am still amazed that it is actually ours. I have to pinch myself sometimes because the birth of our third baby, truly was a dream. I had always thought that delivering my babies would be a breeze, so when I had my first two children I was shocked to experience everything except what I imagined. After an extremely long labor in the hospital my first daughter, Moriah, was born. The…
It was March 2010…We were so excited to find out that we were pregnant with our second child due in November… it was quite a surprise! Our first son, Alessandro was gently brought into this world with the help of the loving hands of Beth Overton, our midwife, in January 2006, so of course, she was the first person we called when our pregnancy test came back positive this time! We started our monthly visits, which are always so great,…
On July 1st of 2004, I gave birth to my first child. It was a beautiful experience; I was surrounded by family, secure in my own home, and comforted by the wonderful care of my midwife and her apprentices. My husband’s mother, who still felt somewhat wary of birth after her own experience, found witnessing the birth of my son very healing for her own heart. My own mother, a nurse for many years, found herself believing that the home…
Born to Kassy and Royce Kemp – Story told by her grandmother, Beth Overton, the midwife who delivered her. May 6, 1998 ~ 7 lbs. 6 ozs Kassy, my oldest daughter called me to come to Arlington, Tx about three weeks before her due date. She was having a little bloody show and since her first born, Zachary came 10 days early, I didn’t want to take any chances. So my youngest daughter, Jessica and I drove the…