Birth Stories

Belly Tales (one of the midwifery blogs) has been posting a series of birth stories, which represent the varied personal experiences of assorted women.

There are numerous other websites where women tell the stories of their childbirth experiences. A few of them:

American Pregnancy Association

Waterbirth International

Pregnancy.org

March of Dimes (NICU-focused)

You can find many more (of varying website quality) using this search, and midwifery-specific birth stories using this search. Blogged stories can be found using the Technorati tags below.

Something to ponder: What of online birth stories that represent birth practices that were not really appropriate for the woman described? It seems as though there is a vast potential for misinformation through the description of experiences that perhaps shouldn't have gone as they did, whether the teller is aware of it or not. Absorb with caution.

Technorati Tags: birth; birth stories; childbirth
MeSH Tags: Home Childbirth; Natural Childbirth; Parturition