Personal Pages

Andrew Jonathan Hart
A completely natural home birth experience attended to by a CNM ( Certified Nurse-Midwife). Also includes advice for women on how to get the birth experience they want.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chart/DrewsBirthstory.html

The Baby Page
A mom tells the stories of her four children's births at hospital. Includes photographs of herself in labor and the babies after birth.
http://www.2frogs.net/0100diary_cont.htm

BBW Birth Stories
A collection of birth experiences particularly concentrating on the labors, issues and concerns of plus sized women giving birth. Also includes a glossary of medical abbreviations and many other sections dealing with pregnancy.
http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/BBWBirthStories/bbwstrindex.html

Birth Stories
Searchable collection of several hundred birth stories ranging from the perfect birth to stories with many complications.
http://www.thelaboroflove.com/birthstories/

Birth Stories
Includes a wide range of birth experiences categorized by date. Covers medicalized, unmedicalized and a variety of problem deliveries.
http://www.plomp.com/birth/

Birth Story Diaries
A large collection of birth experiences photographed as they happen. Includes sections on both vaginal and cesarean and provides a graphical viewing rating for each story.
http://www.birthdiaries.com/

Christian's Birth Story - C-Section
Story of the events leading up to a cesarean birth due to meconium in the amniotic fluid and failure to progress in labor.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/8993/Christians_Story.html#birth

Elijah's Birth Story
Story of a baby's delivery while suffering from a large Sacrococcygeal Teratoma, (a non-cancerous tumor originating at the sacrum). Includes photographs.
http://folks.harbornet.com/raneem/birthstory.html

Freebirth Webring
A collection of assorted websites about unassisted birth or contain unassisted birth stories.
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Gazebo/1000/freering.html

ICEA Childbirth Educator Mentor
Features a weblog from a childbirth educator, Doula and approved trainer shareing personal discoveries and truths about the work she loves.
http://birtheducators.blogspot.com/

Is Pitocin Safe
Birth story about post pardum hemorrhage/hysterectomy due to the use of Pitocin.
http://www.pitocin.bizland.com/

It's a Girl
Short story of the unassisted homebirth of Cindy Rose.
http://www.angelfire.com/il/nowyoucook/birth1.html

Jordan's Birth Story
An account of a very quick labor and unexpected delivery in the lady's doctor's office.
http://home.comcast.net/~CrystalSnow/Birth/

Katelyn Michelle's Birth Story
The story of a long labor. Also includes a gallery of baby photographs.
http://www.thehudsonhouse.com/birthstory.html

Labor and Delivery with Twins
Stories dealing with all kinds of deliveries including sections on epidurals, cesarean, combination ( vaginal and cesarean ) and straightforward births.
http://www.twinslist.org/birth1.htm

Matthew's Birth
The story of a homebirth after two previous hospital deliveries.
http://www.msystems.net/family/matthew_birth.htm

Melbourne Midwifery
A collection of unassisted birth stories from Australia.
http://www.melbmidwifery.com.au/story.htm

My Birth Stories
A mom recounts the hospital births of her four children. Also includes pregnancy/baby pictures and her personal experiences of breastfeeding.
http://www.geocities.com/mmagna.geo/mybirth.html

The Natural Parenting Site
Personal view on unassisted pregnancy and unassisted parenting, with related links.
http://naturalbirth.tripod.com/

The Organic Birth
The story of one woman's natural childbirth using both Lamaze and Bradley techniques.
http://dclwolf.homestead.com/baby03.html

Preventable vocal chord paralysis caused by a birth injury.
This is the personal account of how the obstetrician injured my daughter at birth using the vacuum suction machine resulting in vocal chord paralysis.
http://www.geocities.com/clickchic_71/index.html

Salina - Story of a Preemie Birth
An account of one lady's birth experience at 34 weeks gestation due to PROM ( Premature Rupture of membranes). Includes baby pictures.
http://www.geocities.com/dallet6/salinabirth.html

Sally's Page
A woman who firmly believes in natural unmedicated childbirth recounts the events leading up to her own three ceasarean births.
http://www.theslavinfamily.com/sally/index.html

Shane's Birth Story
A woman tells of being seventeen days overdue, her two hour labor and giving birth to her 10 lb son.
http://www.snugglebaby.com/birth_story.html

Two Homebirth Experiences in Finland
Story of Vilho and Rauha, born using a water pool in their new home.
http://gamma.nic.fi/~hirvoset/homebirth.htm

Unassisted Homebirth
One family's experience with do it yourself homebirth.
http://www.birthjunkie.com/homebirth/

Untangling Knots - My Birth Story
Emotional experience of a baby who died a few short hours after birth.
http://www.untanglingknots.com/2005/05/my-birth-story.html

Xavier's Birth Story
A moms tells of going into labor at 35 weeks. Includes photographs of the events.
http://home.comcast.net/~jzgreely/Birth.html