Vegan Birth Stories

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Aeyah

This is the birth story of Aeyah.

Aeyah, our second healthy girl and our second healthy child, we couldn't ask for a larger blessing from the Earth. When my husband, Brian, our first daughter, Miyana, and I realized we were expecting a child we felt we weren't ready, emotionally, or financially, and that Miyana was a little young yet to have to get used to a new sibling. She would be 2 and 2 months when the new baby was due. She nursed and was very attached to me. But we felt that things happen for a reason so we tried out many midwives and we had trouble finding one that was not clinical. We wanted to have her unassisted but felt at the time that we were unprepared. My husband is a photographer at a newspaper and we heard a writer had done a story on a midwife in our area so we called her up and she was perfect from the first meeting.

The pregnancy went incredibly fast. I felt so powerful, beautiful and free. I was so thin and in shape people couldn't tell I was pregnant from behind. It was an amazing pregnancy. I felt I was going in to labor so many times that when it finally arrived I was in shock. The newpaper my husband works for wanted him to do a photostory on the birth so he always got to take pictures and hang around with me. It felt like he was such a big part of this birth. He was so in tune with the experience.

I went into true labor about 12 am on July 30. I felt I had a long time to go so we didn't call any of our family yet. My best friend, Vicki, a massage therapist and doula student, was with me and so was my husband's twin brother. He took care of Miyana and held her to my breast so I could nurse her and contract at the same time. She had some difficulties with her mamma being in pain. But she had named Aeyah shortly after conception and we felt she had every right to be there.

I was in true hard labor 1 hour 20 minutes then my water broke at 1:20am and she was born at 1:23. I never really had to push. If I had I would have shot her across the room. She was ready to come and needed very little help. Lynn our midwife's assistant caught her, it was her first. We were very proud and happy.

And a few months later we got to see our hard work blazen on the pages of my husband's very small newspaper. It was wonderful. She was 6lb and beautiful and healthy. And now almost a year later it gives me tingles to think of ever trying to live without her. And when I sit down to nurse both my girls I feel so blessed. She is an incredible child. With these blue eyes, my husband and I and Miyana all have brown, we don't know where they came from but they affect everyone she meets. People have told us she will be a shaman or a medicine woman. Whatever is decided for her I know she will make a difference. She already has for me.

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