Birth Stories

I have seen two sides of birth. The hospital experience with my first child and the birth we were all as women made to have with my second child at Holistic South. They provided me the opportunity to have the most beautiful birth I could have ever imagined. I breathed...

After my “medically diagnosed” c-section I’m still in the hospital and in horrible pain 🙁 After the delivery, they took Max away for 4 hours, which was a complete nightmare and definitely the longest/hardest 4 hours of my life, Even though I didn’t get to have the...

My entire life, when thinking of pregnancy, I always thought of negative experiences: mood swings, morning sickness, aches and pains. Pregnancy is typically portrayed as a means to an end, stress on the body to end up with your baby. As you can imagine, when I saw the...

This is the face of a mother who birthed with Patience & Love! YES, there are powerful, intense moments during the birth process, but with the support and love of all around you, no wires or IVs, walking, eating, drinking, and listening to your favorite music,...

Baby Arianna arrived on Friday, Sept 6 at 10:34 am, weighing 7lbs and 14 oz. It ended up being a C Section delivery. I had spoken to you about my pre existing conditions so although I was scared of having a c section, more on the side that the hospital would not do...

Hi Debra, The day I went into labor I wasn’t sure it was labor, but from what I learned in your prenatal yoga classes and the hypnobirthing course helped me through the whole process. Sunday night I was walking the dogs with my husband & my mom when I felt – what...

Here’s to the arrival of Alexyi Smith Muehllehner (name finally chosen after a day of pondering the new offspring), May 14, 2012, 7lb. 15oz, 19.5 inches. My natural VBAC (vaginal birth after c-section) around lunchtime after 9-10 hours of labor and arrival to Jackson...