This past week two sets of twin girls were born to mothers who were planning and hoping for unassisted births.
The Mothering Forum at Mothering.com is one of the only public UC Chat rooms on the web. Most of the chats for Freebirth are private, so it is nice to be able to share some birth stories with a public audience curious about how Freebirthers interact with each other on the web.
I think these twin stories are awesome. And the number one reason is because they illustrate a couple of points.
First and foremost Freebirthers do not reject modern medicine.
If a family feels that they will be served by interacting with a midwife or doctor, they seek out whatever level of prenatal and birth care feels right for them.
Second, the response to both of the mothers was also very indicative of how chat rooms welcome birth stories, no matter how the birth goes. The two birth stories were both greeted with wonderful acceptance and blessings, even though one momma had a section and the other had a freebirth.
Third, the bottom line for most freebirthing families is that the baby arrives safe, no matter where that birth takes place.
Here are the links to the various stories:
Go Here
And here
and Here
May I offer my hearty congrats to both families and pray that as women continue to get educated about proper nutrition for twins and what truly causes preeclampsia, they will be enabled to give birth in the most holistic way possible. The unique nutritional demands of a twin pregnancy can pose serious health risks to the babe if mother is not clued in to what she needs to eat daily to make healthy children. But this mother still built two very large twins and birthed her children in the way that made sense to her family – by c-section.
If you will search around the unassisted childbirth forum on mothering you can get a sense of how the women support and help each other.
Jenny Hatch