Intuitive Birth Preparation: Natural Birth, Homebirth and Unassisted Birth Videos and Stories

This is the 2nd of two resource posts on birth. The first contains information on birth, labor, postpartum and more.

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BIRTH STORIES

First homebirth: My Daughter (Nov. 3, 2009)

• Homebirth Unveiled: The Voice and Heart of Homebirth Mothers (150+ photos)
• The Feminist Breeder: Live Homebirth Blog Event (photos, info and comments in real time)
• One Mom’s Empowering Homebirth Story (9 lbs, 8 oz, no tearing)
• Ozzie’s Homebirth Story (painful, said mama, yet empowering)
• Bring Birth Home (Kaitlin Rose’s) Birth Story (audio)
• Journey to a “Free” Birth (unassisted)
• Breech Babies Can Turn in Labor and/or Birth Vaginally (2 homebirths for same mama — has a breech baby go head down in labor and a head down baby go breech unexpectedly)
• 11 lb Baby! (Homebirth)
• Letting Go of the Fear: A Natural Birth after 4 Losses (HBAC)
• Stacy’s Story — 10.5 lbs Unassisted after 5 Cesareans (UCA5C)
• Planned Footling Breech Homebirth
• A Homebirth Story
• Unassisted Birth Stories (8 stories at Bring Birth Home)

BIRTH VIDEOS

• 30 Natural Birth Videos and Slideshows to Prepare Children for Labor and Birth
• Homebirth/Humanized Birth Gallery (videos — Peaceful Birth Project)
• Videos of Birth (including informative comments from Your Birth Coach)
• Unassisted Birth Videos
• Born Under Water
• Your Birth Coach Live Feed of Homebirth Part 1 (Labor)
• Your Birth Coach Live Feed of Homebirth Part 2 (Pushing)
• Breech Homebirth (planned)
• Breech Birth Video
• Bellydancing through Pain-free 4 Hr Labor (In hospital, w/monitor, pushing on back — I admit when I see it I can’t help but think “She could have stayed home…”)
• Romy’s Birth Story (sibling present)
• VBA3C Study: VBAC after 3 Cesareans Is Safer than Repeat Cesarean (plus birth video)
• Waterbirth HBAC (9 lbs, 9 oz)
• My Journey to a Beautiful Birth (VBA3c) — Tells the whole amazing journey — shows brief c-section clip (hard for me to watch)
• href=”http://vimeo.com/5648654″ target=”_blank”>Cesarean vs. VBAC: A Dramatic Difference — Mom’s HBAC story, including letter she wrote telling her OB why she was choosing a homebirth
• Waterbirth HBAC

Second homebirth: My Son (Dec. 22, 2011)