Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com Thank you for sharing your lovely montage! In her own words: Birth: Our Journey Home From hospital birth to accidental homebirth to planned homebirth. There were many reasons why we chose to birth our 3rd child at home, this montage shows a few of them. It is disappointing and [...]

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Homebirth story here Where do you live? Valparaiso, Indiana USA How many homebirths have you had? 1 Why did you birth at home? We don’t do any of the normal hospital “procedures” to mom and baby before and after birth, so it didn’t make sense to have our baby in the hospital. Did you homebirth [...]

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Who homebirths? ME! My name is Emma and my eight children have all been born at home. My oldest child was born when I was 20 and my youngest when I was 35. The land of my birth is England and I have Welsh, English and Irish descent. I have travelled extensively and my first [...]

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Meet Emily Burns, PhD student at the University of Western Sydney’s Centre for Cultural Research. Looks like a great thesis in the making and sorely needed! Good luck, Emily! This post is to ask if anyone here would be willing to participate in my PhD project on home birth and free birth experiences in Australia. [...]

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I am a 25 year old married woman, of Irish ancestry, living what most would see as a very conventional life – we own our home, both work in corporate jobs, drive European cars.  So, of course, people fall of their chairs in disbelief that someone as ‘normal’ as me would want a ‘hippie’ birth. [...]

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Donovan’s birth story (June 9, 2006) I knew before I got pregnant that I would have a home birth with this baby and any subsequent babies, but I decided about halfway into this pregnancy that a midwife-assisted home birth was still too medical and had too much potential for intervention for me—midwifery in Georgia is [...]

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Although I have not had a homebirth yet, I certainly plan on it next time. Here’s my story that I included in the Senate Committee submission: I miscarried my first child at 9 weeks – a devastating time for me, but the main trauma that lingers from that event was going to hospital & being [...]

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I live in Brisbane, I work part-time as an accountant. I identify as a white Australian. My first baby was born in a private hospital under the care of a private OB. My second baby was born at home. I was 32 for my first birth and 35 for my second. I chose to birth at [...]

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I live in Warrnambool – South West Victoria. I am Caucasian. I am married and am a stay at home mum (who sells the odd handcrafted placenta over the Internet LOL). And I have had one homebirth after a previous caesarean and previous to that a traumatic hospital induction. About 3 years before my first [...]

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I live in Melbourne, Australia. I have a bachelor of arts, with honours in political science. I’m a white, married, heterosexual. I am the mother of one homeborn daughter. She was born shortly after my 25th birthday, in the presence of her father and two doulas. Her siblings (of which we hope to have four) [...]

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