Category Archives: homebirth

siblings at births: on why Noah was there

At age five, our first child Noah attended our second child’s birth. Since then, several people have asked (often in open bafflement): why? Here’s our answer.

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how to choose a midwife

I can’t seriously tell you how to choose a homebirth midwife, of course, because everybody’s situation is different and the options are different from state to state, country to country. But several people have asked how we went about choosing a midwife, and we were a little baffled by the task when we first faced [...]

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a home birth story: Simon’s birth, part 7 of 7 (meeting our baby)

[earlier installments: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] I turned to sit down and had this funny moment of surprise at finding a baby in our living room. I mean, I was delighted, but I was not expecting it. With Noah, I had a longer pushing stage with breaks between pushes and much more quiet to shift [...]

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