My home birth experience

Commentary

Many women who are having a “precipitous” pregnancy – they are anticipated to have a labor of three hours’ time or less – choose to have a home birth. This option becomes especially appealing for women for whom their first delivery experience was stressful, long, or traumatic. Home birth can be a great option for women who want a labor, delivery, and recovery period that will not disrupt their ordinary lives. Having a home birth allows women to experience labor, delivery, and recovery in the comfort of home. Having a home birth can allow women to feel more prepared and in-control of their pregnancy.

Key Takeaways:

  • Giselle Hale’s water broke on June 22nd as she was getting a manicure and pedicure. This took her by surprise since she was induced during her last pregnancy.
  • Focusing on a positive birthing statement like Giselle did can provide you with a calming mantra to get you through the rough points.
  • Giselle claims that she felt relief, triumph, and then fear wondering if her newborn daughter was okay after delivery.

“With my second child I became one of the 2% of American women to give birth at home.”

Read more: https://medium.com/@gisellehale/my-home-birth-experience-5df0e7c020f5

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Chrissi Long

Chrissi is the founder of blissfulbirthing.com which helps mamas-to-be tap into their body’s innate wisdom and divine feminine power to birth naturally.

With 6 natural childbirths Chrissi’s mission is to rewrite the societal story that it has become “normal” to see birth as a medical condition.

One that’s excruciating and completely out of a woman’s control and not the beautiful biological process that it truly is.

She’s helped hundreds of women go from petrified of the pain and disempowered to embracing the experience and having a fully natural and blissful birth that they cherish the memory of forever more.