I’m so excited to share with you the home birth story of our third daughter, Jolene Marie! She was my first home birth and I was able to have my dream water birth in my bath tub, surrounded by twinkly lights. After 14 hours of active labor, she surprised us all by being frank breech! It was definitely my hardest birth with intense back labor, but truly worth it and magical.  Below is my home birth vlog you can watch, or scroll to read on for the whole birth story written out! Midwife: My Barefoot Birth Photographer (photo credit for all professional birth photos in this blog post): Upstate Birth Photographer   Backstory I planned a home birth with my […]

In this episode, my husband Michael and I are sitting down to share our twin birth story! So if you love birth stories, or you’re just super curious how it went, you are going to absolutely love this. Michael and I are talking about our planned home birth turned pre-term hospital birth – how it went and how we felt. We actually talked about this on our family YouTube channel (if you prefer to watch that here), but we thought it would be fun to do a podcast episode about it all! We’re really spilling all the details about our birth experience. To preface this story, we were always told that going to into labor is kind of uneventful, and it’s […]

If you haven’t followed along on Instagram, I’m excited to announce that our twin girls have made their debut!! They were born on March 20, 2022. Annabelle was born at 3:49am and Felicity was born at 3:54am after a fast 4 hours of labor! It was a crazy birth story that I’ll actually be sharing here on the blog next week, so keep an eye out for it! But, today I’m sharing our lifestyle newborn session where we brought the girls home.  Welcome home, girls! The girls spent their first two weeks in the NICU before they came home with us, so they have been home for about one month now! Sooo crazy!! Those first two weeks were the hardest […]