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Mother’s Day Reminiscing—Confidence for Birth and for Life

This Mother’s Day—my first with three daughters—I can’t help but think of their birthdays and the midwives who helped us along the way. With three girls, I’m careful about cultivating an attitude of confidence around the birth experience because how we experience birth can affect us for the rest of our lives. As my daughters …

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Home Birth after Cesarean: My VBAC Experience with Lucie

My first birth was nothing at all like I had planned. When I hit 40 weeks of pregnancy, my hospital provider threw my birth plan out the window and scheduled me for an induction. A series of events—often referred to in the birth world as the cascade of interventions—led me to an emergency cesarean, leaving …

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