A family’s story of their amazing surprise twin hbac… My babies are three weeks old now and I am just starting to wrap my head around our wonderful surprise twin home birth. For me, their birth is a story of incredible love, patience, empowerment, and support. My first birth had been an unplanned cesarean, and this time I was preparing for a home VBAC – Vaginal… Read more →
As luck would have it, I was able to attend not one, but two special births in my home province of Alberta the fall before last. One was for my sister, who gave birth to the cutest nephew that anybody ever had, and whose story I posted a few weeks ago. The other was for a friend of mine who… Read more →
While the vast majority of the time birth goes (or SHOULD go!) smoothly, occasionally a family doesn’t get the birth of their dreams. A mother wrote her wise and beautiful reflections on not getting her dream birth, and how the first year of her child’s life taught her so much about parenting and about birth and about processing it all.… Read more →