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