I am the face of home birth.

I had my son back at home in 2009. Still I'm anything but your typical home birther. I drop ibuprofen like candy. I'm the first in line for a new vaccine, an MRI, a biopsy, or any other aspect of Western medicine. I wanted my son circumcised and immunized, and I wore him for about three minutes before deciding that attachment parenting was a little too close for comfort. He started taking formula when he was three months old.

And yet - I am the face of home birth.

We are a diverse group of women sharing one common trait: the desire to birth free of interventions in the most comforting environment possible. Some of us have a family bed. Some of us don't. Some of us buy into homeopathy. Others don't.  The truth is, home birthers today don't fit into neat little definitions.  We're not all hippies or evangelicals.  Most of us are professional women in our 30s and 40s making the conscious decision to forgo a traditional hospital birth.

This site is a space free of judgment, offering support for our common decision to birth at home no matter what other choices we make. And let's have a little fun while we're at it.