An unexpected gift from our home birth - revisiting our “birth space” every single day, throughout the day🤍🕊️ When I decided I wanted to have a home birth, I really was only thinking about the labor & birth process The comfort of being at home during the pains, as well as the bliss. The freedom to move around & labor as I needed. The ability to seek out seclusion in our safest space, as well as comfort from the people I love who could be around me. The chance to set up my birthing zone exactly how I wanted. The extra little conveniences of simply being in our every day living space I thought once or twice about how neat it would be to know that I had given birth here at home after it happened, but I was so focused on the actual birth experience itself, I didn’t really even consider the “after” in much detail But now… Over the last week & a half every time I walk into our living room, I look at it totally differently I look at the painting on the wall & remember gazing at it through those final surges I turn on my home birth playlist & remember when certain lyrics or melodies stuck out in my mind amidst the fog of transition I look at the pattern of our rug, & remember focusing on it briefly while Cole held me & prayed over me shortly before our girl arrived I look at the worship song I have written out + framed, & remember seeing my Mama standing in front of it, holding our first daughter while I cradled our second in my arms after just giving birth to her a minute before I sit on our couch & remember laying there, seeing Dove’s eyes open while she nursed for the first time As with many birth experiences, we had unexpected moments. Things I wish could have gone differently, or wish I’d better prepared for. Things I am still processing, reflecting on, & learning how to move forward from Above it all, one thing is abundantly clear in my heart + mind: Home birth is a GIFT, & further, a gift that keeps on giving It wasn’t just a gift to be able to experience birth in our home, but now simply experiencing our home gifts me with glimpses back to those precious moments from Dove’s birth •
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