I love reading birth stories. Which one is your favorite? Is it yours or someone elses? Share it!
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I like anonysquire's.
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I love reading mine the most
It brings me back to that day! Other than my own matador84's roadside birth is amazing.
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@Foodnerd81: same. @matador84: 's story is the best. ever.
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@Adira: thank you for posting links and I love that story. I
birth stories!
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@matador84 's hands down!
ETA: @runsyellowlites too! I love that she had her VBAC in the hall on the way to the OR (& I miss her on here!)
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@jetsa: There's just something about a surrogate that makes me so weepy! It's just so generous and beautiful!
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I love this one. It's long, but really poignantly captures a birth experience being different than what you've planned for and expected.
http://blog.longreads.com/2014/11/06/a-birth-story/
Now I'm off to read the other stories in this thread!
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Dooce's. Far and away the best.
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@Adira: that was a great one!
but i immediately thought of @matador84: 's!
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I can't remember the story per se but I love the picture of @lawbee: when she first sees her daughter. Truly one of the most beautiful pictures I've ever seen!
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Not an HB birth story, but Kelle Hampton's birth story of her daughter with Down Syndrome is so beautifully written, I've read it like 10 times.
http://www.kellehampton.com/2010/01/nella-cordelia-birth-story.html
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loved matador's!! it remains in my memory to this day! i like most birth stories, but not many stick with me.
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@Adira: yes!! and the last picture in this post was priceless - http://www.hellobee.com/2014/07/29/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-surrogacy/ - still haunts me, it's so beautiful.
"The moment they watched their long awaited, so prayed for son arrive."
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@MoreCoffee: gah i tried. I really did. but it was too long. how does a person even remember that much detail?!?! lol
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@Adira: I loved hers as well.
@Ree723: Awww
You're sweet. I love that picture as well. And it was a story told in pictures, so it makes sense that you would remember the photos more than the story!
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@My Only Sunshine: +1! I just reread it the other day
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@MoreCoffee: This is a great story, so long but also really great.
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@Foodnerd81: yes! Best. Story. Ever.
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I don't have a favorite! But this reminded me that I never wrote C's!
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@lawbee11: That's right! As soon as you mentioned that it was a story told in pictures, several more of the images popped to mind as well. Such a wonderful way to document M's birth!
@sorrycharlie: Yeah, my C is 13 months old and her birth story is still only half written....I can't even remember the rest of it now!
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@My Only Sunshine: Thank you so much for sharing this. I have just spent the last 40 minutes reading many of her entries at my desk, starting with the birth story of Nella. Unbelievably written. I have a new favorite blog. And I bought her book! So, thank you.
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@Mrs. High Heels: That picture at the end is so beautiful!!!
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I don't have a favorite, but man was I glad to have read so many. I'd read several different versions of Ina May Gaskin's books, and all the different stories in those. From that, I knew that was very common for even normal babies to need help breathing after birth - so I didn't stress when my daughter did. It was immensely helpful, I'm really glad I did it.
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@Mrs. High Heels: YES!!! That picture when their son is born - it is BEAUTIFUL.
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I loved reading That Wife's birth story, aka mrs avocado from weddingbee. Hers was one of the first I even remember reading.
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@autumnlove: haha, you're so sweet!!! So far both my births have been a little weird!
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@Foodnerd81: @rachiecakes: @birdofafeather: @Mrs. High Heels: if y'all heard the 911 call, you would dieeeee. It is so crazy! I actually need to go back and re-read that story because there are a couple things that I have remembered since I wrote it!
It brings me back to that day! 
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