Submit Your Birth Story

Would you like to have your birth story featured on the Home Sweet Homebirth blog and/or social media accounts? We value stories about all different types of birth — unique, funny, and inspiring — and love hearing how they empowered you. What helped you most? What were your most treasured moments? We want to share stories that help other women expand their views on what is possible for a positive, deeply meaningful birth experience and encourage them to expand their perspectives and explore their options.

If you have a story to tell, please fill out the form below. We love pictures of anything related to your pregnancy, birth, baby and postpartum period, so make sure to include some! Then, submit your actual birth story and pictures via email info@homesweethomebirth.com and write "Birth Story of Your Name" in the subject heading. Please include a photographer credit with your photos if they have been taken by a professional; let us know their Instagram username if they have one. Please also specify if you would like to be tagged on social media and include your usernames.

*Submitting your story gives Home Sweet Homebirth permission to share it on our website, social media, and marketing materials.  Not all stories submitted will be shared. Thank you for understanding and for helping other moms on their journeys.

 

Art by Catie Atkinson www.spiritysol.com

Art by Catie Atkinson www.spiritysol.com

Sacred, Sensual Birth, The Little Doula & Laughing Baby Out

Sacred, Sensual Birth, The Little Doula & Laughing Baby Out

My second son Ojiah was born on December 12th 2007.  During the pregnancy I needed guidance accepting the change that this was bringing to my life. From conception, Ojiah has been asking for my evolution as a person, spiritually and actively. While researching ecstatic and orgasmic birth, I found Suni Krall's book Sacred Birthing. My first birth was amazing and I needed to know I could have another wonderful birth (that I hadn't used up my great birth reserves, so to speak) This book, most of all, helped me with affirmations, visualizations, and meditations. I practiced mindful meditation, stating my intentions towards a healthy baby and a spiritually high, painless birth. 
 

Journey From Hospital To Home, Victim to Empowered, Fear To Confidence & Loving Birth

Journey From Hospital To Home, Victim to Empowered, Fear To Confidence & Loving Birth

Eli’s birth story doesn’t begin with my water breaking. It really begins with the support of the childbirth educators who empowered me and offered the revelation that there are birthing options. Without them, I would have continued to believe in the limits of prenatal care (dipping a stick in my urine, checking my weight and warning me of the various fetal maladies by another OB in my five minute checkup.)

Why Mama Chose & Loved Her Homebirth...Even When Intense

Why Mama Chose & Loved Her Homebirth...Even When Intense

The baby (cherub) is sleeping beside me on the bed, one little arm draped across her cheek. According to everyone’s advice, I should be sleeping too, but I have wanted to record as much as I could recall before it is all one beautiful glossy memory. This is the story of our daughter’s homebirth on December 3, 2009. The choice to birth at home was an easy one without many reservations. Among them were the fear of disturbing the neighbors (which is quite possible as I sang through each contraction…more on that later) and the fear of destroying my favorite rug with various gross fluids (I actually birthed on my favorite rug with many layers of towels between us, and am so happy such a beautiful piece of art holds that memory).