olive's homebirth/waterbirth

pregnancy and homebirth/water birth experience of our daughter olive. music by ben harper. birth should be an empowering experience - this is just one small snippet of what her birth was like for me. i felt powerful, present, connected to all women before me, truly doing what God made my body to do. special thanks and praise for our midwife Kathy Mitchell who rocks!!

for more information about the benefits of a homebirth please go to gentlebirth.org or mothering.com

for more information about the benefits of a waterbirth visit waterbirth.org

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• waterbirth
• water
• olive
• midwives
• midwifery
• kathy
• mitchell

[candywarhola1]

Wow, I can't get over little baby Auggie & how much Olive looks EXACTLY like herself when she was so tiny.

[softletters]

@candywarhola1 haha totally yes

[mersylla]

Your husband seems to be very caring

[softletters]

@mersylla he is amazing

[lkilleen7]

I love this! My midwife is Kathy too...i found your video by googleing Kathy's name! Beautiful video! We are also planning a home birth with Kathy for January...i love her so far! she does rock :) your daughter is so cute (i also watched your other video) We are going to be having a girl too :)

[softletters]

@lkilleen7 YAY! i can't speak highly enough of kathy! she is and was wonderful!

[FilthyFive]

Very beautiful video and awesome family. You all must be very nice and friendly types. Who shares their family with the world these days? And to people commenting rudely about the tattoos. "The only difference between tattooed people and non tattooed people is that tattooed people don't care if you're not tattooed."

[komnumep]

I love this video. I watched it over and over during my pregnancy. I had a waterbirth for my son in Feb 2010 and it was just a wonderful as the one in this video, and sometimes I come back to watch this one to remember my son's birth. Thank you for posting it.

[esymank22]

you are beautiful!

[Alex19922810]

@theogass I assume it was his choice to sit in the water with her. Many fathers don't get in but if he chooses to, that is his right and it is not your place to judge or post nasty comments.

[Alex19922810]

I found this video about 2 years ago, it was the first water birth I had ever seen and ever since I have had in mind that this is the way I would like to give birth. Your daughter is beautiful and watching this video brings tears of joy to my eyes. I would like to thankyou for introducing me to this way of birthing, you have inspired me and I assume others aswell. Plus I love the song :)

[DelBoy709]

I'm going to be honest here, you 245 people are heartless... this is beautiful.

[EL1833]

que lindo!

[theogass]

White people be the nastiest motherfuckers. Having your husband sitting in your nasty, bloody ass cooch water. Yuck

[kitty67859]

This is beautiful(:

[ShannyBaby555]

BEAUTIFUL video- I cried. One of the most tasteful and sincere I've had the privilege of watching :)