Category Birth Stories

Guin and Phil – My Beautiful Blessingway

Then Liz put out some coloured paper and pastels on the kitchen table and asked everybody to make a mandala or picture with messages or images suggesting a good birth. Everyone enjoyed getting creative with this. We put the pictures…

Guin and Phil – Birth Story

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This story really starts with my own birth. I was my mother’s first child, and despite the 1970s hospital setting she birthed me without medical assistance – she tells me I ‘popped out like a champagne cork’ as the July…

Antonia and Richard

I have been very blessed to have met a wonderful man, whose father is married to a very dear friend of Liz’s. Pat and Geoff had always spoken about this force of nature, this “Birth Mother” who is passionate about…