11 Home Birth Videos That Will Convince You You Were Made To Birth

Hey mama, if you are like most of the moms I’ve worked with, there’s a little voice somewhere in your head that wonders, will I be able to do this? What will birth be like? Will it be too painful for me?

If you’re stuck on a hamster wheel with these thoughts swirling around, then you are in the right place.

Not everyone who reads this post will be interested in having a home birth, but, even for my mamas giving birth in the hospital, there is a powerful lesson to be learned from these home birth mamas.

Because, even if you are planning on having an epidural, you will have to get through some of labor before it is available, you may have to wait for an anesthesiologist to become available, and you will still have to figure out how to push when the time comes.

These home birth videos show the real and tremendous power mothers embody as they give birth. If you’ve ever wondered if you can do it, I think after you’ve watched this videos, you will have a new, more positive story in your mind about what it means to give birth.

So let’s rewrite your stories about birth and help you see how powerful and positive of an experience it can be!

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What Do Moms Say About Giving Birth At Home?

“I had serious doubts about my ability to birth a child. Overcoming that changed me as a person.”

“I was not prepared for the profound amount of respect and gratitude I would have for my body after birth.”

“It was hard and I did it.”

“It was so beautiful.”

These are all things that women have told me about their natural birth experiences. Home birth is beautiful. It is incredibly intimate. The love that flows at a home birth is like a waterfall holding and changing everyone there.  

I absolutely loved my homebirth. But I didn’t always know I wanted to birth at home. In fact, before I did it myself, I belived that home birth was irresponsible and dangerous.

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Home Birth Is About Building Your Trust In Yourself

What I Learned From A Birth That Never Progressed:

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 I felt a lot of anxiety all through my first pregnancy and birth. I liked my doctors, and I truly think the did the best the could for me. They were and are good people. But the birth was still traumatic. I labored for 24 hours and never dilated past a 3. Eventually, they called it and I ended up having a c-section. It wasn’t the way I envisioned meeting my daughter. And it was so so hard on many levels. 

I’ve spent a lot of time pondering why I was not able to progress in my labor. And I think a big part of it was because of my preparation, or lack of real preparation.

You see, I had a lot of anxiety about birth the first time around. When I would ask for help or discuss my anxiety with my doctor, the answer always came back to ‘trust the system, don’t worry too much, it’ll all work out, we will do this for you’. I never spent time understanding my anxiety or developing myself as a person or mother. 

How I Learned My Body Is Meant To Birth

After this birth, I met a new friend in my moms’ group. Every week we would take our kids’ hiking and I would hear my friend talk about her life as a midwifery student. In our conversations, I had space to unpack my birth. I saw that things could have been different and came to understand that I had options I had never considered before. 

I knew I wanted to do a home birth the next time around. 

This time, when I was faced with anxiety about my birth, my midwife helped me dive into my anxiety and find out how that fear could help me grow. Because of my anxiety, I developed my knowledge about birth, my body, my own fears and so much more. I learned to trust myself and let systems support me, not the other way around.

The focus was on learning to trust myself and becoming someone I could trust. This was challenging, but rewarding emotional and physical work.

By the time I went into labor, I no longer had anxiety, I had confidence, curiosity, and excitement. In 12 hours of labor, I birthed a 10 lb baby in my bedroom with the help of a licensed midwife and her assistant, and it was one of the best, most redeeming experiences of my life. 

Thousands and thousands of women have given birth. As you develop your trust and knowledge in your own body and in birth, I’m confident that you can too. 

These home birth videos will help you reclaim your power to birth and reframe birth from something dangerous and scary to a natural and normal (though quite intense) process.

How Do Homebirth Videos Help You Prepare For A Better Birth?

Most women have never seen another women give birth. We have a lot of scary stories, drama inducing media clips and unanswered questions about what it is like. Watching home birth videos helps you prepare for a better birth by:

1. Giving you new images to rewrite the ones purposefully written to make you scared or feel intense emotions (such as on a TV show).
2. It lets you get the feel for the wide array of ‘normal’ birth and opens you up to accepting your story the way it unfolds instead of feeling like you have to control your story.
3. It reminds you that you are part of a vast lineage of women who have birthed babies and that you are literally designed to do this. Evolution is on your side.

Knowing what to expect in labor can take birth from a scary mystical pain fest to a totally manageable, totally awesome journey to meeting your baby.

If you’d like to learn the breathing patterns, thought patterns, coping strategies and more that help moms get through labor with or without and epidural, make sure the join my Birth Class. As a doula, I’ve helped hundreds of moms prepare for birth since I had my own empowering and positive birth experience.

I believe every mom deserves to feel confident as she goes into labor. And I know I can help you develop the skillsand gain the knowledge needed to feel great about going into labor.

Are you ready to watch some home birth videos? Here we go!

11 Home Birth Videos That Will Convince You You Were Made To Birth

Home birth videos are an excellent tool to use when you are preparing for birth. They teach you about how other moms cope. They show you the rhythm and rituals and breathing techniques that help moms get through it.

Ultimately, your birth will be your own. However, just seeing that other moms have done it can be extremely motivating and powerful. It’s not about comparing yourself to other moms and recreating their experience, it’s about learning to love your own experience and opening up to the idea that even if it’s hard, it is totally doable.

If you’re ready to work together to learn skills, tools and strategies to create a positive birth, check out my Birth Class where we can walk the path to a positive birth together.

Let me know, do these videos inspire you? Need more birth videos?I got you covered!

Until next time,

Light, love, and laughter,

Suzzie Vehrs