Positive Birth Stories

Websites and blogs

Books

Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin

• For a collection of oxytocin-rich (or “psychedelic”) birth stories and a thorough introduction to the physiology of natural childbirth, compiled and written by one of the Western world’s pioneers in the home birth movement.

Unassisted Childbirth by Laura Kaplan Shanley

• A captivating collection of personal stories belonging to Laura Kaplan Shanley, a birth educator. Shanley birthed all four of her children at home in the absence of any medical professional, including home-birth midwives.

Podcasts

Happy Homebirth - Positive Natural Childbirth Stories
Oxytocin Changes Everything
Bess compared her three births ( medicated, unmediated hospital, home) and the oxytocin induced bonding of each.

Birth Stories in Color - A Space That Specifically Celebrates, Mourns With and Supports People of Color and Their Transformation Through Birth
Reimagining the Village
Tayo and Toni create a village, as a family and of Chicago Birthworks Collective.

The Birth Hour - A Place For Sharing Birth Stories, Struggles, Triumphs and Resources
Three Vaginal Breech Births
Jessica’s three breech birth stories first at a hospital, then birth center, then home.

Australian Birth Stories - Mothers’ Stories of Childbirth
Heidi’s journey with infertility, breech birth, and miscarriage.