Joel's Birth Story: Born at Home, During a Worldwide Pandemic (with pictures)
Since I was young, pregnancy and childbirth have always been something I was super interested in. I wanted to watch everything about them and hear every story. Back in 2015, six years into our marriage and one year before we got pregnant the first time, I came across a documentary called The Business of Being Born . It changed my whole view on birth and I fell in love with the idea of a natural homebirth. I remember telling Bryan that that’s what I wanted to do, and even though he watched it with me and agreed with what he saw, he still didn’t feel comfortable with the idea. We didn’t have much knowledge on the subject besides the one documentary and a couple of friends who had done it, so when we found out we were pregnant a year later, we just went the traditional route for prenatal care. Twenty-one weeks into that pregnancy we found out that our son Judah was “funneling” and I spent two weeks on my back in the hospital trying to keep him in. You can read his birth story here . I had...