Read how this Mom’s experience laboring at home and a water birth at The Birth Center was so different from her prior hospital births.
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Read about how this Mom came to The Birth Center late in her pregnancy and was able to have the un-medicated, physiologic birth that she wanted. “During my visit, I had my birth plan with me, and I was going to show it to Ruth. However, I quickly realized I didn’t need to because everything in it was standard practice at The Birth Center. I knew I would be able to have the birth I wanted from the get-go.”
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Read about how this Mom labored in the birthing tub, in the peace and quiet of The Birth Center, with her partner at her side.
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Read about this Mom’s experience laboring and birthing at The Birth Center – an experience that included her husband and their three year old son, who cheered her on saying, “Yay, Mama! You is so strong, Mama.”
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Read about this Mom’s second birth experience at The Birth Center took more work and was a longer labor, and how Ruth and her team coached her and allowed her labor to progress naturally and, in her words, “let it be the sacred moment that it’s supposed to be.”
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Read about this Mom’s reaction after her birth at the Birth Center: “I felt so humbled and grateful for this beautiful birthing experience I just had, thinking that every family deserves to have this amazing experience truly “a nice way for a family to be born.”
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Read how this Mom’s birth experience – her fourth baby and her first birth center birth – was so different from her prior in-hospital experiences, including water birth, labor coaching, postpartum care.
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Read about this Mom’s experience of birthing her 4th baby after a stalled labor and with baby turned to the side.
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Read about this Mom’s fast labor, arriving at The Birth Center at 8 or 9 cm dilated, and even so, she got the water birth she wanted.
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Ready about how this Mom hoped that she would remember how she found the strength to get through her labor, and would call upon that strength to find new ease and fearlessness in everyday life.
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Read about how this Mom’s back labor was helped at The Birth Center using the birthing tub and also sterile water injections. Of the injections, this Mom says, “I had instant pain relief and I was able to relax and regain my focus on what was important.”
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Read about how this Mom, after two hospital births with unneeded interventions, birthed her third baby at The Birth Center, the way she wanted.
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Read about this Mom’s birth experience with her family present with her. She says, “I do believe my son Kadin is such an amazingly peaceful baby because he was born in an amazingly peaceful environment. Many thanks to The Birth Center for the extraordinary experience we will never forget.
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Read about how this Mom was supported in her labor by Ruth recognizing that this Mom was trying to control her labor. After Ruth encouraged her to let go of the control and become more internal. In this Mom’s own words, “I did and while using various hypnobirthing techniques I relaxed into the contractions as much as I could. An hour later I was fully dilated.”
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Read about this Mom’s straightforward labor and birth experience at The Birth Center. “Would I have done anything differently? Absolutely not. I enjoyed having such a private feel in the birth – no family and friends there – only my husband, Ruth and Alethea. It’s what was best for us. I tell everyone how fantastic my experience was, giving birth without medication. What a great feeling it was!”
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