Reminiscing our home birth
Birth Story: Hunter Everdeen Cruz
8•22•2020 • The day I became a mama 🖤
Baby boy
8lbs 21.5”
unmedicated home birth
By far most the beautiful empowering intense day of my life. Our baby boy decided to surprise us… 2 hour precipitous rapid labor! We literally held our babies head in our bathtub. There are no words for a moment like that, time truly stopped. How lucky are we to have that sacred memory! I can’t begin to express my gratitude to have a man that was fearless, who kept me grounded & confident to help bring our baby into this world. And a phenomenal birth team that helped guide me throughout pregnancy & labor.
• 8:30am – 10am: Grocery shopping & coffee shop.
• 10:18am early contractions began, without anytime between to rest… physically / mentally defeated
• 11:16am laying on the bathroom tile, cooling off
• 11:23am water breaks, I spend the next 25 minutes near toilet but make my way to the bathtub for relief
• 11:56am I tell Robb to film this moment!!
• 11:57 we’re holding our babies head in our hands
• 12:00pm baby boy is here!
The moment I felt the babies head coming out, my body relaxed and I went into a state of surrender, peace, and physical relief knowing we’d meet our baby soon! So much self doubt consumed me prior, thinking I was going to experience such intense labor for the entire day!
Our doula arrived to help daddy at the last minute and midwife facetimed unfortunately cut off our video! But still so special. Midwife arrived to help with the placenta and took great care of our newborn & stitching mama back together! We all truly assumed, when labor began it would be an all day event! Baby boy had other plans! Very rare for a first time mom to progress that fast. Our midwife and doula encouraged sex by saying what gets the baby in… helps get the baby out 🤣
Without a doubt, we could not have handled this birth if we didn’t spend the last 8 months preparing: watching documentaries, reading, educating our selves, taking albradley method course, communicating deeply and having the most amazing birth team I could ever imagine. I was also passionately dedicated to my healthy diet, herbal teas, gentle exercise, and daily affirmations
My dream was always to travel the world 🌍 I really never desired to have children. But here and NOW… The happiest & healthiest I’ve been in my life was the past 9 months throughout pregnancy and starting a family. Despite years of exploring, this is by far our greatest adventure yet.
Words can’t express my gratitude for Robb. He is an amazing man, my best friend, and such a great daddy. If you would have told me 10 years ago I’d be having a baby with him… we both would have laughed! And here we are happily ever after… I’ve watched him grow over the years, and I am so proud and honored that you are the father of my child. Despite his initial resistance to the delivery process, he gained confidence and recently said, “My hands are going to be the first ones to touch this baby!” The universe gave us the perfect birth.
The moment I found out I was pregnant, I felt very called to have an unmedicated natural birth. Over the past 9 months, we dove deep into research of the benefits, reading endlessly, watching documentaries, online courses. It was important for me to know Robb truly believed in the benefits, and didn’t just support my decision. I was passionately dedicated to a consistent healthy diet, herbal teas, pregnancy exercises, affirmations, and envisioning this birth. I can’t begin to express my gratitude for this man, I felt so loved & supported in pregnancy and we both agreed unmedicated natural birth at home was the goal.
This is raw & real we both truly hope to inspire others, and their perception of child birth. It can be such a beautiful experience, nothing like the way it’s portrayed in movies and with the unnecessary interventions that often happen in hospitals! If a woman is willing to listen to her body and trust her baby
Thank you Birth Team 💛
Midhusband / Best Friend:
Midwife:
Spiritual Doula:
Photographer / Doula:
Bradley Teacher:
Chiropractor:
Natural Birth Advocates / friends: @esandoz @samantha_johns
And the countless people, books & resources that guided me along the way ✨
