Home Birth Videos Are Beautiful!
Home birth videos capture amazing moments in life. Mothers share their most intimate moment and record it to cherish. Birthing a baby is an amazing experience. Those that choose to birth at home have the added pleasure of being in an environment they are familiar with surrounded with only those they have deemed will be the most helpful on that special day.
For those Mamas who are interested in having a home birth, these videos can hold a wealth of knowledge. When I was contemplating my home birth, I was full of questions. First, I had to wrap my mind around the idea that I can trust my body to birth a baby. The next step was finding out exactly how a woman’s body births a baby. For that, watching how a woman births can be the ideal way to learn.
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Understanding how your body works in labor is empowering. No one can take that knowledge from you. I found a book on how a woman’s body births at Amazon. Rahima Baldwin wrote Special Delivery to encourage others in natural birth
Here are some home birth videos to encourage and inspire you. Some captured an unassisted childbirth. Others are filmed with midwives and doulas present. No matter where and with whom, every childbirth video is beautiful.
WARNING: THE HOME BIRTH VIDEOS BELOW ARE GRAPHIC IN NATURE AND SHOW PARTIAL TO FULL NUDITY
This Mama gives birth in a birth pool at home. Her partner is helping her in the tub. She delivers the baby while leaning over the side of the pool.
This Mother is in a tub that you would use in gardening or on the farm that is filled with water for a water birth. The mother is close to delivering her baby as the video starts. She grunts as she bears down and pushes. The pushing brings the baby’s head to crown. Right before the baby is born the mother is quiet. Her baby slips out soon after crowning.
Pictures of a home water birth with birth attendants and family nearby. The mother labored in various positions around the house. When it came close to delivery, she entered the water and birthed in the water. She was leaning over the edge of the tub as she delivered.
Pictures of a home water birth set to music. A midwife is present for the birth. The baby is born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck very tightly so the midwife cuts the cord almost immediately after birth.
This mother gives birth in a squatting position. Her baby is born onto the floor which has been prepared for the birth.
This Mama has opted to have a home birth with a midwife. As she labors and is close to delivering, the baby’s head is a bit slow in moving past the crowning stage. The midwife is about to administer an episiotomy, but the Mama gives one last push right before the cut and baby’s head is born.
. She is expecting twins. Her first baby is born in the water but off camera. After a while of waiting for contractions to push the second baby out, the mother starts manual stimulation to help her contractions along. Her second baby is born while the mother is on her knees. The mother turns around so the baby can be brought up and held in her arms. Later, she births one placenta and then the other.
Home birth videos can show us the power of solidarity as we see here in these pictures and videos set to music of an unassisted home water birth in a bathtub. The mother's only attendant is her husband. She labors in her tub but video of the actual birth is not shown. Pictures and video post partum are shown and include a picture of the placenta.
Home water birth of a midwife with attendants and husband present. The mother is in a kiddie pool that has been repurposed for a water birth. This mother feels lots of pain right before delivery. She makes statements that she can't go on but in reality she is very close to delivering.
Home birth videos show us the power of community. This mother had a home birth with midwives and doulas present. Her husband helped her stretch so she doesn’t tear.
Home birth videos sometimes show us seemingly impossible feats. Here is a mother giving birth in a LaBassine birth pool at home unassisted while her husband tapes the birth. She doesn’t need to make any sounds as her birth is pain free. She gives birth as the birth pool is filling up and delivers her own baby.
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