Birth Stories

Lana shares her story delivering a big baby. Despite challenges, including concerns about size and position, she delivered a 10 lb baby.

I’ve definitely learned with this birth and my previous births that I dilate quickly near the end and to trust my gut about when I’m ready to push, even if I have to make the doctors believe me!

With our second baby, we experienced month after month of negative pregnancy tests and finally got pregnant after trying for a year.

Once I got to that stage of labor everything went really quickly. It went from nothing happening for 12 hours to "Oh you’re ready to push!" After 31 hours of labor it only took 9 pushes total and our newest addition Emma was here!!

My labor began at 3am when I heard a “pop” coming from my belly while I was laying in bed. I got up, curious about the sound, and a heavy trickle of water