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Real Birth Stories from
Birthing Class for First Time Parents
Grab a cup of tea get ready to enjoy inspiring birth stories from first-time parents who attended a birthing class from Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. These clients tell their stories through images or words. Giving you insight into all kinds of births. We thank all of our families for sharing their stories to help bring confidence and connection to future birthing families.
If you would like to add your birth story email us at hello@birthbybloom.com. We would love to share your story!
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Preparing for a family-centered caesarean birth.
Birth by Bloom helps you prepare for your caesarean birth. We will walk you through the event so you can think ahead and prepare.
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Third Baby BC Women’s Birth Story
As the sun came up I rushed out to BC Women’s Hospital to meet my client birthing her third baby. I didn’t get a chance to meet this...
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Bloom Birth Video with Birth Story
The love in this birth movie is so powerful you might find yourself drenched with tears. Grab yourself a tissue, get cozy and watch as my...
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Bathtub catch home birth baby
I feel so fortunate for having had such a great pregnancy. Aside from months 2 and 3 when I felt nauseous, tired, and craved dim sum and...
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Maggie’s Rainbow Birth Story
I am so excited to share the story of Maggie’s birth. More than 16 months after her birth, it’s ready for sharing! It took 5 months to...
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Birth at St. Paul's Hospital
Sometimes first births go really fast. This was my first birth of 2016, it sure started the year off with a bang! I joined my clients at...
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Burnaby General Birth with Midwives
We made it to the hospital just as things started to progress really fast. The birth room was not ready so we had to make due in the...
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Vancouver Home VBAC
Trusting birth. How do you figure out if a VBAC is right for you and your family. We spent many hours going over the risks of VBAC and...
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Loss Story: In Memory of Audrey Megan
The following story was written by Dawn, one of my favourite midwives, a birthing mother, wife, sister, daughter, community member, and...
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Slow birth Home Birth Story
I had a fairly smooth pregnancy. Other than feeling quite sick for the first half, it was rather uneventful, though definitely not an...
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Born at Home Vancouver Birth Story
Barto guarding the belly and the house. Their doula arrives. Their midwife arrives. Barto keeping watch. Just before they meet their...
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Vancouver Home Birth
Sometimes first-time mom’s birth their babies quickly. A quick first birth is often under 10 hours from start to finish. I knew when my...
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Family Home Birth
I love it when I get a message from M. that they are having another baby and I am invited to take birth photographs at their home birth....
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Twin Boy and Girl Born at BC Woman's
Last night I attended the wonderful birth of these two little people. Twin 'A', a baby girl, was caught by her dad. Soon after Twin 'B'...
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Alice’s Birth: Living My Truth Post-Caesarean
To give birth, you must dive headfirst into the great mystery. Your body transforms, a new being emerges, life is never again the same....
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Doula's Home Birth
It is pretty special when you get to photograph a fellow doula’s birth. What a beautiful relationship this family has and what a...
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Thanksgiving Day Home Birth
Having a baby at home on Thanksgiving day is always special. Especially when you doula is your best friend and your husband has masted...
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Catching Her Baby at Home
The night before Halloween my client welcomed her second baby into the world at 42 weeks and 3 days. She birthed her baby surrounded by...
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Days of Labour and a Caesarean Birth
After many days and hours working through her birth at home, we headed to the hospital. After anther day at the hospital it was time to...
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Fast Vancouver Home Birth
“There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” ~ Laura Stavoe Harm When you feel the...
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Twin Girls
Check out twin "A" and twin "B" these two are going to rule the world! All images by Morag Hastings with Apple Blossom Families. A huge...
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Born at Home Mom and Dad's Story
E. & R.’s Home Birth Story E: I woke up in the middle of the night on Wednesday with contractions about 10 mins apart. I tried to get...
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Catching Her Baby
There is something very special with raising your family in the house you grew up in. Now imagine birthing your baby in the very same...
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Born Just In Time For Christmas
There is nothing more surprising than needing an induction, especially when you are expecting a 2016 baby. Instead they had their son...
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Vancouver Home Birth with Kids Doulaing
One of my best friends met her dream man, they fell in love and made a baby. I was so honoured to get to attend their home birth as their...
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Home Water Birth with Birth and Beyond
I was lucky to attend a birth this week with Natalie from Birth and Beyond, a midwifery clinic located in UBC. (Now Natalie is on Orange...
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Third Boy Home Birth in Surrey
I love getting asked back to my clients second and third births. I wonder if I will be asked to attend a fourth sometime. This client,...
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10 lbs Baby Born at Home
It is a pretty big honour to be invited to a fellow birth workers birth, especially when the mom is a fellow Vancouver birth...
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Twins at BC Woman's Hosptial
This morning these two sweet twin babies were born six minutes apart. The little one on the right was born first weighing 5 lbs 3 oz...
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Home Water Birth with Sibling
It all started early on Canada Day 2015. My client texted me in the morning to let me know her pressure waves had started. She also...
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My Nest Birth on the Hospital Floor
I first experienced a handful of surges five days before my daughter was born. After a bloody show the next evening and a call to my...
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66 Hour Birth for this Doula
My birth was 66 hours long so I am feeling overwhelmed at how to write it all down. Things started gently Sunday night, I made groaning...
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Midwife Catching Her Own Baby.
Much of the end of pregnancy is spent wondering when and how labour will start, just waiting for that first contraction. When my blood...
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VBAC Home Birth Transfer
I connected with this wonderful dedicated family earlier this year. Their goal was to have a vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC). They...
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Loss Story: The Short Life of Oscar (Trisomy 18)
Life, with all of its challenges, is a celebration. Oscar was diagnosed at 15 weeks gestation with Trisomy 18. After months of...
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Burnaby Home Birth
Almost time! He had no problem finding his thumb. Mom cutting the cord herself. What a beautiful symbolic moment. Snug on daddy skin to...
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Vancouver Home Birth First Baby
This is dad checking out his daughters head in a mirror before she was born. With every push his smile would grow bigger and bigger. Then...
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Water Birth at Home
I got to attend this beautiful home water birth earlier this week. This mom filled her apartment with a group of fully supportive, loving...
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Baby Boy born at Home in Surrey
Second babies come quick! This sweet boy was born at 12:13 pm on July 14, 2014. Mom just made it into the pool. This little guy came in...
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Baby Girl born at BC Woman's
On a beautiful early summer day in Vancouver, labour began slow and steady. Soon to be big brother, dug in the garden and ate freshly...
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Home Water Birth
I get invited into one of the most private and special times in a families life. I am always in awe in how beautiful the process of birth...
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A Home Birth Story
I love it when my clients share their birth stories with me and the public. It can be so inspiring to hear how other women did it. It’s...
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Now we are Eight Home Birth
Welcome to the world. It was such an honor to be at your birth. Now they are eight. To read another inspiring home birth story here....
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Home Water Birth
All this post needs to say is …. this mama got her home water birth… and it was wonderful! The amazing midwife, Dawn, checking baby and...
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Home Birth
This family was amazing. There was so much love, support and joy. My heart is still big after attending their birth. Welcome to the world...
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Long 3 Day Twin Birth at St. Paul's
This mom planned her twin birth to make sure she was surrounded by the people she wanted at her birth. She laboured at home for many days...
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Surprise it’s not a boy!
I love last minute births. This mama decided last minute that she wanted birth photography. I happen to have a space so we planned to...
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Caesarean Birth Story BC Woman's Hospital
After hours of hard labour and a need for a caesarean birth, my client looks amazing getting ready to meet her baby. Mind you I think the...
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Birth Story with Doulas
This little guy was born on his due date. They hired their birth photographer for the right day! This family had doulas and midwives to...
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