Avyn’s birth story

Avyn’s birth story

Avyn’s birth  Avyn was born in a smooth home birth, with calm music, dimmed lights, a birth pool, two trusted midwives, and his babbo Leo and big sister Alicia holding my hands. It could not have been any better. But the time leading up to the birth was not the...
The birth story of Noor at home

The birth story of Noor at home

The name Noor means ‘light’; she was actually born at the first light on the day she was due. The blackbird had just started singing and the great tits had finished their first round through our small garden. Noor was delivered in our living room where the toys had...
The birthing story of Machteld

The birthing story of Machteld

Machteld narrowly escaped a trauma from her first delivery. As soon as she is pregnant for the second time she resolutely decides on consulting a different gynaecologist and on having a delivery at the polyclinic with her personal midwife. “It felt as if I was in...
Roan’s birth story

Roan’s birth story

After giving birth to a star gazer, this mother does not anticipate a smooth, second childbirth. And yet, it turns out to be a birth beyond her wildest dreams. My story is one that I could only have dreamt of, so perfect it has turned out to be. As my previous...
The birth story of Cis at home

The birth story of Cis at home

It was on the first day of the new year that Cis saw the light of life. His mother, Joke, describes his more or less unexpected home delivery and shares suggestions about how she prepared during pregnancy for the birth. It is with great joy and happiness that I am...