28/03/2026
PART 1/7: Our gentle soul Rudy is now 6 months old and it finally feels like the right time to share his birth story.
The birth of my second son was everything I had been preparing myself for since the birth of my first child. It was raw, wild, and has brought me so much healing. So much of me is changed.
The birth of my first son (now 4) happened in the hospital via episiotomy and forceps delivery, something I never wanted and did not need. I made choices from a place of fear, lack of knowledge, and distrust in my body and birth. Carrying with me generations of birth trauma and missinformation. I was scared of birth and subconsciously believed that I couldn’t birth without help. And so this exact experience manifested for me.
Fast forward 3+ years I’d done the work and had rebuilt trust in my body and I knew birth could be beautiful and empowering. I devoured as many positive birth stories as I could and was determined to do things on my own terms and take full responsibility. This led me down the path to a wild pregnancy. It meant no pregnancy test, no antenatal appointments, no blood tests, no scans (albeit I did have one private scan at 21 weeks), no measuring my bump, no limiting what I ate, no toxic prenatal supplements, and no tracking my weight. It was just me, my baby, and my trust in God.
I decided I was going to take full responsibility for my health, my mindset, and leaned deeply into my intuition. At my private scan, I was told that I had a low-lying placenta and would need further scans to check that it had moved - this threw me off a little and I began to reel anxious, but I sat with this and chose to lean more deeply into trust. The fear I was feeling wasn’t mine, so I decided to let it go. That was the only part of my pregnancy where I sought information outside of myself and it grounded me even more deeply in my truth.
I’d gone down the medical path before and this wasn’t the path I wanted to go down a second time.
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