Positive Birth Stories
Read real, positive birth stories from our community. From inductions, C-sections, twin births, vbac, homebirths, water birth, elective c-sections, second time mum births and more there’s hundred’s of birth stories for you to read. Looking for a particular kind of birth story? You can use our search bar or filter below to find it. If you would like to submit your own birth story, please do so here.
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- Birth Centre
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- Second Time Mum
- VBAC
- breech
- fifth time mum
- first time mum
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- gentle cesarean
- gestational diabetes
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- hospital birth
- induction
- midwife led unit
- natural twin birth
- obstetric cholestasis
- planned cesarean
- pre-eclampsia
- second time mum
- third time mum
- twin pregnancy
- unplanned cesarean
- vaginal birth
- water birth
Lauras Positive HBAC - Homebirth After Caesarean At 42 Weeks
Laura used the hypnobirthing she learned to have a positive home birth after a previous unplanned caesarean. Laura was 42 weeks & active labour was 4.5 hours!
Birth story - Yaki and baby Georgia
Yaki is a second time mum who had her baby at home at 40 weeks + 4 days, in the bath. She describes this birth as, ‘a very empowering redemptive birthing experience for me.’ Read her positive birth story here…
LGBTQIA Birth Story - Kate and Baby Jude
Kate is a first time mum who had her baby at home at 41 weeks + 4 days. She found the support of the positive birth community and her midwife helped her to have a ‘beautiful’ birth. Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Brittany and baby Quincy
Brittany is a first time mum who had her baby at home at 40 weeks + 2 days, in Alabama. She chose to labour at home as she felt she would be calmest there and, with the support of her husband, she stayed focused and in control. Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Sunamita and baby Sam
Sunamita is a first time mum who had her baby in the bath, at home, at 41 weeks. She found water was a great relief during labour and progressed so far at home she stayed there to deliver her baby. Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Mum and baby girl
This first time mum had her baby in a pool, at home, at 38 weeks + 3 days. She completed the digital pack and said, ‘I really do think the hypnobirthing techniques were indispensable.’ Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Nata and baby Luna
Nata is a second time mum who had her baby at home, in a pool, at 40 weeks + 2 days. She remained calm and focused throughout and says, ‘The experience was amazing. So empowering and euphoric.’ Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Becky and baby Huey
Becky is a second time mum who had her baby at 41 weeks + 1 day at home. She thanks the PBC for, ‘helping me to become educated & empowered in my birth preferences & wishes.’ Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Crystal and baby boy
Crystal is a third time mum who had her baby at home at 40 weeks + 3 days. She says, ‘giving birth at home was the best option for me and I couldn’t have done it without the course. I’m so over joyed with the impact the hypnobirthing course had on my labour, delivery and post natal recovery.’ Read her birth story here…
Birth story - Jeni and baby Ruby
Jeni is a second time mum whose baby decided to make an unexpectedly speedy arrival at home before the midwives arrived. Although this was not planned, it was a positive experience nonetheless. Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Codi and baby Harbor
Codi is a third time mum who had a water birth at home, at 40 weeks + 2 days. She says, ‘Home birth was the most amazing thing I’ve ever done in my life and I would do it over and over.’ Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Natasha and baby Cosima
Natasha is a second time mum who had her baby at home. Using hypnobirthing breathing techniques she stayed calm and focused and delivered her baby herself. Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Chloe and baby Rubie
Chloe is a second time mum who had a fast but calm homebirth, after her more distressing first birth. She says, ‘I feel truly blessed to have had a wonderful birthing experience.’ Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Jacqueline and baby Quinton
Jacqueline is a second time mum who had a home, water birth at 38 weeks + 6 days. Using the Freya App, she, ‘guided him out, alone, under the watchful eyes and supportive words of my birthing partners and midwives.’ Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Lucy and baby Bodhi
Lucy is a second time mum who had a waterbirth at home at 40 weeks + 5 days. She says, ‘It was such a dream being at home,’ and that the whole process was relaxed and calm even though she progressed quickly. Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Tara and baby Poppy
Tara is a second time mum who had a planned cesarean, due to her baby being breech, at 39 weeks + 5 days. She remained calm and relaxed as she underwent her cesarean. Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Luanne and baby Maxon
Luanne is a second time mum whose baby seemed in a hurry to arrive and was born at home just before the midwives arrived. She says, ‘Educating myself on birth physiology, stages of labour and hypnobirthing really helped to keep me calm and confident during this experience.’ Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Jessica and baby Maya
Jessica is a second time mum who had her baby at home at 41 weeks. She completed the digital pack and felt empowered to have a homebirth, afterwards she said, ‘The feeling was euphoric.’ Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Ellie and baby girl
Ellie is a third time mum who had her baby at home at 41 weeks + 2 days. Hypnobirthing and the digital pack helped her to be, ‘trusting and relaxed in the knowledge that my body would birth [her] baby and I truly think this made for the most wonderful birth experience.’ Read her positive birth story here…
Birth story - Mum and baby girl
This second time mum had her baby at home at 41 weeks + 4 days. She says, ‘I was so empowered during this birth and I am taken aback by how confidently I advocated for myself and my daughter and how much I really trusted my body to do what it needs to do.’ Read her positive birth story here…