Raising my Snoekies

Cohen Heine 27 April 2015 Our planned unassisted home birth And here we are at baby number 4. Cara-Mia is 5 Ciane 2 and Carmin 1. Yes I fell pregnant while exclusively breastfeeding again. We from the start appointed a midwife in case we have complications again. My pregnancy goes pretty smooth, despite the very busy other three and the fact that Carmin could not even walk yet. And then we had a false alarm and my husband and a fight with the midwife ... and basically fired her. So now we are planning an unassisted birth. I read up all I need to know and decide that we live close enough to a hospital should anything go wrong we can just pop in there. My husband now works further from home and will have to seriously speed to get to me in time if this birth foes like the first two.  For the first time I am pregnant for a whole 40 weeks , In pregnancy terms that is like 40 years. I don't take any pills and just wait it out. 27 April Freedom day in our country, n

Carmin Callisa 19 December 2013 Unplanned planned assisted birth at home The first time I wrote this story wasn't very good. I think I was a little too negative to an overall positive birthing experience. Both my other births went smooth and quick in their own way. And I was about to experience something totally different than what I expected. Ciane (baby nr 2) was 4 months old, exclusively breastfed, when we found out I was pregnant. I have to share this we were away for the weekend with my parents and my oldest daughter, then 3 told my mother she is going to have a baby sister named Callisa. We all laughed and joked until I started getting sick on the Monday .. like morning sickness sick. So I had a three year old and a basically newborn, needless to say my pregnancy was a little more stressed and busy as apposed to the 9 months I basically spent in bed with the others. We decided we are going to have an unassisted home birth. We know the drill. Until w

The birth of Ciane Jacob 29 November 2012 Our unplanned unassisted birth I got married in 2011 and after attending two prenatal classes with my husband we both knew we wanted a homebirth. We found a midwife who was willing to assist us at home. Hired a birth pool. Got all the necessities.... Now this birth has a big back story ... My amazing mom, my rock, my hero's birthday is on 30 November. And since she turned 60 that year we planned a huge party with all her friends, and family and this party would take place on the morning of the 29th as it was the date that suited most people. Morning of 28 November. I some serious discharge going on down there, but we don't panic because we have a scheduled appointment at the midwife later that morning. She obviously also noticed the discharge and said it could be one of two things. Either I have a serious infection and need antibiotics or I am in labour. We said 100% no internal exams, that stuff freaks me out, it