OUR BIRTH STORY | 36hr *at home* labor & delivery
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2023
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Let this video be a message to any expecting couples to take a birth class. Go the extra mile to educate yourselves. It's not enough to just have a doula and I myself am a doula. Your doula should not have stayed to help you induce labour at 1cm dilated, that was extremely non-productive. Look up prodromal labour and all the ways you can AVOID it. Let go of when you think you'll have the baby and dates and inducing labour. I know you are so so excited to meet your baby but birth trauma is very easy to come by and I promise you would rather be pregnant for a few extra days opposed to suffering from the trauma of forcing them to come on YOUR timeline. Your body will go into labour when it's ready. Unless you are in active labour (6 or more cms) REST! The emotional pain you are seeing them go through is because of their unrealistic expectations with regards to labour and birth. Ignorance is not bliss.
Oh friend! Your labor is never in vain! Even in the hospital. Even at home. Even if things don’t go the way you thought! God is in it & He is good. So thankful for Micah’s safe arrival 🌼🌼🌼
It’s almost like you were holding on to your preferred birth experience and preferred birth date as some kind of idol instead of giving it up to God?
This sounds like a pretty standard home birth. I’m trying to figure out what was traumatic? Did I miss it?
Birth is all mental. Yes, physical too, but it’s a dance with your mental state. If you are not mentally calm, flowing with your body and baby, your body won’t continue to dance with you. You enter a state of mind that stops progression because you’re in fight or flight. It’s so hard, but the mental preparation you need to do before a natural birth is CRUCIAL. No expectations, just flowing with your body and baby. If you have any doubts or discouragement, your body knows that, and won’t keep going to keep you in a safe state.
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever CRIED from a birth video but this one wrecked me. When he comes and you see the joy on Tori and Chad’s face. Wow🥹
What Chad said about the answer, the image, God gave him made me tear up so much. The husbands role in the house hold means so much ♡
Guys, hearing this story was PAINFUL. Not so much because of the visual explanations but because is very obvious when listening to you that you were so set on your on ways and expectations for this birth that you almost put your own life and your baby at risk, for not giving up on a date that you thought was cute? For feeling that all your work was going to be wasted if you would agree to go to the hospital?? With all do respect you guys, that is pride. Sometimes we wanna call it “our personality” but God calls us to have Jesus’s personality and humbling ourselves, our times, our plans and expectations. I totally agree with seeking to have a natural birth, the healthier the better but you really made me check my motivations to seek one, for that I thank God I found this video, but I really hope you can recognize you were being quite stubborn and start surrendering your expectations more because that is not gonna serve you of anything good in parenthood. I appreciate your vulnerability and I pray that the Lord will be glorified in the midst of your fails, he will transform you through parenting. Hope to hear more of that on future videos!
One question I‘m asking myself when you say you didn’t know all of those things: is there no birth preparation class or anything offered by the midwife’s helping you with your homebirth? I‘m from another country and those to things go hand in hand here so I was wondering the whole time!
This has the Lord written all over it. Leave it to God to turn your birth story into a testimony that will inspire so many. Love you guys. I'm honored to witness what you guys go through and pray alongside you. Tori and Chad your strength, trust and vulnerability when it comes to God is truly a gift to me❤️ the Mastersfam loves sweet baby Micah🥹
Let this be a lesson to all mommas not to “Chase labor”, the best thing you can do for yourself in early labor is pretend like it isn’t happening and REST. I 100% understand wanting baby out ASAP, but we can’t fight against our bodies, we have the sit back and let it do it’s thing.
I felt that moment where your whole body froze up and stopped contracting. Wow, Tori! Strong mama (and dad!) You did it! Thank you for sharing your story ❤❤
Chad crying in private had me bawling 😭 this was so raw and honest you guys :( proud of you and look up to you guys so much. Micah is so beautiful 💙
I had my baby 5 weeks ago ♥️ my active labor was 19 hours (although I also was in pre-labor for days also…) it was intense, emotional, painful, exhilarating, and miraculous… 😭♥️🙏🏻
1. First off you guys look so beautiful in blue!! 💙
All natural birth mamas relating to this story right now, whether labour was a few hours or days. It IS a pain that you forget but also a pain that you'll always remember. God is amazing.
Labor and delivery nurse here and crying at the ending. It’s so true! Every birth! It’s incredible
Jesus was definitely there for all three of you every second of that labor - giving Tori strength to keep persevering, providing Chad with comfort to extend to Tori, and in the womb with Micah keeping him at peace all throughout the chaos happening externally. Thank you so so much for sharing. This was an incredibly beautiful messy masterpiece of a story. It’s my first time being so invested in a couple’s relationship, marriage, first pregnancy, labor, and parenting journey, and this video’s definitely my favorite so far. There’s really no other proper response but praise to God for you guys. 💖
"He's with us in our pain. It's not always deliverance from it, but it's faith and comfort inside of it" -Chad. This is such a deeply-moving and profound story of God's faithfulness, steadfast presence, and redemption. Thank you two for sharing your hearts with us, and praise be to God for the wonders of His gift, for His unceasing kindness & His sweet friendship with us--in the highs & in the lows.
You had Micha exactly 3 hours after I had my daughter so I was laboring with you Tori! To think that God had his hand on both of us at the same time is amazing. And I’m so happy for your little family and all you went through is so powerful what a story❤God bless you all