Homebirth, unassisted birth, big baby, freebirth

🌼𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔🌼
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In life, as in birth, we are often steered to pursue something better and more powerful by our past experiences. It’s said that great things are achieved because of traumatic past experiences. That we seek out healing and triumphant moments to overcome hurt in our lives.
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And if you ask a woman why she chose to birth at home, her answer will almost always start with “I had a traumatic first birth”. She spent so many days and nights grieving the birth. Suffering beyond words and wondered if she could ever overcome this pain. She fell apart. Completely fell apart.
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She wrote a letter to her doctor from her first birth that ripped through her like a knife in her heart. She told her that “It was supposed to be the best day of my life. And now it haunts me.....I have had 4 additional children since then and I haven’t been able to get what happened to me out of my head. What you did to me. What your ignorance has done to me. What it cost me. What it mentally did to me. What I think about literally everyday I look at my daughter. How I was surgically assaulted by ignorance that almost cost me my life. How lucky I am to escape that physically unscathed. But mentally, what you did to me, will haunt me, and will haunt me forever”
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Her next birth, she took her power back. She birthed her 10lb baby at home, surrounded by those that loved her the most and respected her the most. She came into a new life. One that encompassed love and support and what birth should of looked like for her the first time.
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You see, if you never jump, you will never know how to unfold your wings as you fall......
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Like the bird that took the leap and jumped, she too, flew. She soared high in the sky.
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Mommy: Amy Wimberly-Kincaid