One of the reasons I chose to have a homebirth was because I wanted a sacred birth space. I didn’t feel it was possible to create that experience in a hospital. I believe that creating a sacred birth space is one of the fundamental elements of manifesting your intention for a wonderful birth. It
This is a story of a day in the life of an Independent Midwife. The familiar jangle of the mobile at 3 am woke me but not with a start as I had been expecting the call. I received a text at 9.30 pm giving me the heads up that things were happening. She
Verena and Bobby are excited to welcome their second son Lukas Singh Cheema into this wonderful world. He was born on Wednesday the 19th of June 2013 at 12.40pm through a natural home-lotus birth in water at 38 ½ weeks (49 cm and 2.9 kg). We are very thankful for this empowering birth experience
The debate on which is better for birth – hospital or home – is one that often generates strong and emotive responses. On one side are campaigners demanding that babies’ lives are being put at risk due to ‘ill-informed notions’ that home is safer, or just plain selfishness on the part of mothers. On
This is my journey of Diesel's birth. I can still remember clearly the day my husband Pete and I found out we were pregnant. After eighteen months of trying to conceive, we were in shock when we saw the two lines on the pregnancy test. It was real! In the early weeks of my
Yet another ‘homebirth horror’ story has hit the headlines of late, most notably on the Mamamia website. A woman in Victoria, who had had two previous caesarean sections, researched her birthing options online when she next became pregnant and chose to have a homebirth based largely, the article states, on information found online that
This is Isambard's birth story. I knew this baby wanted to come to us fast, but I didn't expect to go into labour before forty weeks. I felt a trickle just as I was falling asleep about 1 am on Saturday 7th May, exactly thirty nine weeks! After mopping the bathroom floor, my mind was
While I was pregnant my children and I visited our burral* for healing and learning time. Country spoke to us and sent us the totems of the new teachers that would come into our lives during this new chapter. The country also began to speak about the learning journey that the mother and new child
In Australia, Homebirth is a contentious issue. For many years now we have heard of the increased risk to babies and mothers of home birth, and read stories of homebirth tragedy splashed on newspaper billboards. We have also seen reports of the protests of pro-homebirth midwives, women and their families fighting for a woman’s
This is Aminah Anne's birth story. Jacqui did a session two days before I went into labour with lots of cupping and extra moxa. After I left, the strangest feeling came over me. I knew that this was the beginning of labour and I needed to go home, rest and nest! The next evening,
