NevadaHomeBirth.com
Title
A Special Delivery
Contact
- Jill Collin
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- Las Vegas Nevada
- United States 89100
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- 000000000
Description
I was born in California in 1964, and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada with a large family of eight. We moved to Oregon in 1977 where I met my first husband and gave birth to my first baby. In 1982 Bo was born in an Oregon hospital (originally a planned homebirth) where I had a long hard drugged labor. After two days dealing with Pitocin induced contractions I finally gave birth with the help of a vacuum extractor to a severely depressed baby that required resuscitation. In 1984 I had my second baby, Zackary in Las Vegas with a CNM at UMC Hospital. The birth was so-called natural although I had to fight for my rights. I married my second husband in 1985 shortly after we had baby number three, Roshelle at home with a midwife in attendance. Three years later baby number four arrived, Chase also born at home with a midwife in attendance.
After the birth of Bo I was disillusioned. Because the birth was not natural I felt cheated. All the preparation I had planned on, like the birthing classes, anxiously awaiting the “natural” birth, the close bonding and immediate breast-feeding was never attained. It gave me a feeling of helplessness not being in control of my own body and having someone else dictate the outcome of my birth, which should have been a close intimate experience. My friends at this point were no help telling me that this was the “norm” for birthing.
Not satisfied with the outcome of this birth or the opinion of my peers, I got together any and all material with the words: “natural”, “pregnancy”, childbirth”, “breastfeeding”, etc. listed in the title. Extensive research was done on the normal physiology of labor and childbirth. I decided to help other women learn how to be in control of their births and have a right to know how the female body functions.
