Our Birth Movies

This is a link to a couple videos that we made to help us remember this birth experience.

The first is a video of our ultrasound on May 15.  It is wild to watch this video now while holding Alice Jane.  Pregnancy is a miracle that we are just now starting to fully understand.  We now know that Alice is just as squirmy outside of the womb as she was inside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmRuohAPhY

This second video is our birth movie.  Before our delivery, the majority of stories we heard seemed closer to horror stories than to the miracle of birth.  We wanted to share our positive experience with others so they might develop a different image of birth.  Why was it positive?  We educated ourselves, understanding the different scenarios and the procedures associated with them, and by doing so we removed our fear.  We elected to have a natural, husband coached child birth with self directed pushing.  That doesn't mean it was the right way, it just means that it was our way. The video is edited tastefully so that it can be shared and viewed by anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lOCr8-7SPE