Silverhawke ~

Silverhawke's 2002 unabirth story.

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Judith ~

Our ex-Sufi Jewish pagan Buddhist part-Marxist, part-anarchist nonviolent middle aged intellectual hippie type who conceived and birthed a real heathy child without medical intervention after 17 years of TTC...

Judith's birth story

I have a lengthy history with The Farm and their midwifery scene, and ongoing mixed feelings stretching back to when my aunt was one of the elder Farm settlers over 30 years ago

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Kat ~

I'm a 23 yo SAHM in Florida. My son is 3 months old now (Wow! how time flies!) My husband and I birthed him at home unassisted, and while I was a huge supporter of UC while pregnant, now I'm practically a zealot.

Kat's family website

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Maka ~

(One of the founding mothers of the "cbirth" list) Her infamous signature line:

single stay-at-home cloth diapering, lullaby singing, non-vaccinating, dish washing, novel reading, nose wiping, website building, movie watching, class teaching, story telling, auction selling, bubble blowing, non-circumcising, tarot reading, swing pushing, macramé-ing, heartsong sharing, Reiki healing, book writing, earth loving, boo-boo kissing, unassisted birthing, bliss following, spellcasting, clothes washing, trail blazing, tear drying, ink loving, speech giving, co-sleeping, floor mopping, breastfeeding, picture snapping, sleep lacking, non-spanking, opinion making, crocheting, daydream believing, hard working, unschooling, hammock sleeping, unshaven, path finding, power-nap taking, woman loving, PB&J making, bad-ass crunchy mama to Daystar (fsbc 6/23/91), Griffin (uhb 7/11/99) and many other babies never held in arms!

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Bill ~

Bill is a Registered Nurse whose wife Marge joined our list and followed her heart to a unabirth. Their birthstory is here. I'm hoping he'll help my write a page for reluctant fathers and/or health professionals soon ;)

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Kaire ~

(From her intro post, Dec. 2001)

I am Kaire, 23 years old, massage therapist. I live in FL and I am married with a 3 year old son and 13weeks prego. I specialize in prenatal massage and have been studying pregnancy ever since I was PG with #1. I am very much into all forms of natural medicine and especially birth. I am planning on birthing at a center.

Kaire's homebirth story

(an update, Feb. 2003)

I am now 7 weeks pregnant with baby number 3! And planning on another home birth, in no way will I have a center birth!

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Becky ~

The birth of Becky's first child took place in a military hospital. When she became pregnant again she discovered a few resources on the Internet that have led her to plan a unabirth for early 2003.

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Tammy ~

Tammy's birth of Mariah

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Christina ~

Christina's birth of Vladimir

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Nina ~

I am a 22-yr old SAHM mom to 16-month old daughter, and expecting another in mid-2002.

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Ril ~

Founder of the term "UnaBirth", Ril is an active member of the unassisted birthing revolution that has been gaining momentum in Canada and abroad for over 2 years now.

Giving birth to her first child unassisted with her husband by her side at 34.5 weeks gestation in 2000 was the beginning of a career change for Ril. She now is a Childbirth Educator working her way to becoming a birth attendant in order to witness UnaBirth.

Rather than attend a birthing woman with lots of touching and meddling, she feels that being there for moral support and guidance is what woman need to take back their power (if they are still feeling too broken by our medical society and past births to birth fully alone). It is her hope that by witnessing their UnaBirth that they will gain the power and trust in themselves to go it alone fully the next time around.

She now dedicates her time between raising her daughter with her Husband who suffers from CFIDS, and sharing her knowledge and learning on the many birth support lists she runs on Yahoo groups (Unabirth, Ontario Homebirth, Holistic_Birth_Parenting, and Waterbirth2) as well as contributing to birthlove.com, empoweredchildbirth.com, and her own web site, as well as other birth related online support groups.

Never feeling like there are ever too many pots on the fire, she is also writing a book about Unabirth, and her experiences, as well as running a home based business making knitted diaper covers. An avid attached parenter, home schooling advocate, and freelance writer of many subjects, recently being published in local home schooling support newsletters, she and her husband are planning on expanding their family later this year (2003)

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Maoinagh ~

My first pregnancy ended in toxemia and a heavily medicalized birth. My second child was born at home with a midwife in a much more empowered setting.

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Anne ~

I am twenty-one, single, and am currently sharing my body with my first child

I'm a truly non-interventionist sort of person when it comes to medical stuff, and this does not change for me because i'm preg. so, I won't have anything like an official due date, or knowledge of sex or anything of the sort...a lot of people in my life feel that I'm not yet ready to do this b/c of my age, but I view motherhood as more of a spiritual calling...one that I wasn't ready for a year ago, but I certainly would never say that someone who was twenty, or even younger, was unprepared just because of age.

It is one of my personal missions in this life to make the world a more child friendly, and thus more friendly overall, place to exist.

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