Planned Home Birth in the hospital
Planned home births sometimes become planned hospital births. Here is a photographic essay of one family's journey to the north of their newest baby.
Planned home births sometimes become planned hospital births. Here is a photographic essay of one family's journey to the north of their newest baby.
I always had known that I wanted to be a mother but never once did I think that I would have my babies anywhere but at home. I couldn't envision a hospital setting being as warm and comforting as my own four walls. So, determined and armed with the knowledge that it was safe, healthy and possible I took to the internet to look for a ...
It was around 5 p.m. on a Tuesday and I found my wife upstairs in our apartment balancing on a yoga ball, her head resting on the bed and both our 12 pound dogs perched on either side of her looking concerned. I had left work early. Amanda was two weeks past the due date and had said she was cutting short a walk with the ...
“I can't lift that bag of dog food, can you help me please?” I said to the Agway clerk. “I’d carry it myself, but I just had a Cesarean section.” “Congratulations!” said the Agway clerk. Huh? Congratulations?! Oh yes, that's right. I had a baby. She couldn’t see the scars. ***** At 36 weeks pregnant I felt like I had the flu. I blamed it on a ...
Baby T's birth story After everything we (I) went through with P and her birth, I decided that if we ever had more kids, I would do things differently. With P, I went through a pretty traumatic c-section and I ended up with severe PPD. Neither of those things were things I ever wanted to experience again, to the point where I considered closing the door on the ...
Local Care Midwifery, PLLC and K. Michelle Doyle, CNM, NYS LM are featured in this article about home birth in NY Capital District. The article published in CD Parent Pages was written by journalist Dania Bianchi. For her research, she interviewed many woman beloved by LCM: Chrissie Morrison, Kendra Hennessey, Chrissie Hotaling, Dr Marla Eglowstein.
My first nursing job left me unimpressed with the safety of hospital birth. Now, decades later, I work daily with Local Care Midwifery, PLLC to offer planned home birth as a safe and reasonable choice of for families of NY's Capital District.
When my wife, Christina, first told me that she wanted to have a home birth for our second child, I was a little apprehensive at first. I was like most people and thought it was crazy to have your child at home and not in a hospital surrounded by doctors and nurses. I personally do not care for most doctors, but even so, I still thought ...
Going into labor was something I was completely paranoid about during my second pregnancy. Since I had no idea I was actually in labor for most of my labor with my first child, Gregory, I found myself evaluating every cramp as a possible contraction and every twinge as possible cervical changes... I didn't want to be obnoxious about it, so I didn't call the midwife every ...
I remember Michelle switching from her thin, flimsy latex gloves to her "serious baby-catching gloves". I remember asking her, gasping for air between contractions, "where are we?" and the excitement I felt when she made a chestnut sized oval with her fingers to show me how much of your head she could see. I remember Erin telling me "you're doing it, this is it, he's going ...