by Shannon Howard | May 28, 2018 | Birth Stories
Levi Elliot MacVean 1-17-18 2:39am 9lbs, 22 inches Levi’s birth story starts with the birth of our first son, Henry, who is now 2 ½. With Henry, we were committed to a natural birth but didn’t feel completely on board with having a homebirth, so we decided to have...
by Shannon Howard | May 14, 2018 | Birth Stories
Reese Catherine Markey Born at home on April 4, 2017 10lbs 6oz of love! I finally left work over 41 weeks pregnant and my mom, your Ama, came to Albany to help us prepare for you and help me stay grounded. On Sunday, April 2nd, we thought I was going into labor and...
by Shannon Howard | Apr 30, 2018 | Birth Stories
Nine years ago, with 4 children under 5 at home, I was 26 weeks pregnant and received a letter from my OB that he was going out of business. The cost of malpractice insurance was closing his single doctor/wife as his nurse practice, and he was joining a large practice...
by Shannon Howard | Apr 16, 2018 | Birth Stories
You were born at 2:25pm on Monday, February 6th, little David. Your birth in our home was everything your Dad and I had hoped it would be and a whole lot more. Here is the story of your birth as told by your mom… It all started on Sunday afternoon. I had been...
by Shannon Howard | Apr 2, 2018 | Birth Stories
We have used Heidi and Maureen at all of our births. Maureen was at our first birth and Heidi at the birth of number two, three, four, five, six and seven. Numbers three and four were twins!! We had six (seven) AMAZING births. The birth experiences were so...
by HeartSpace Midwifery, PLLC | Sep 23, 2012 | Birth Stories, Uncategorized
Ivy Kathryn-July 4, 2012 I started with Owen and Nathan’s birth stories not only because I wanted to record them, but because I wanted to portray the vast differences between their births and Ivy’s. Consider yourself warned, this is really long!I had...
