Enjoy exploring this collection of plus size birth stories! You can read stories by category or one-by-one. From PCOS to Motherhood: Megan’s Story, You Don’t Get To Decide How Your Birth Will Go: A Transfer Birth Story to Giving Birth with the Flu – each story is uniquely beautiful.
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C-Section: The Easy Way Out…A Birth Story
Like many cesarean birth moms, Heather hears people say, “a c-section is an easy way out.” Heather’s birth was anything besides easy. This is her story!
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Finding Strength: My 38 Week Induction Story
At about 38 weeks, my blood pressure spiked just enough to nudge us towards the decision to induce. I trusted my doc completely.
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Feet In The Grass: When Birth Trauma Is Triggered
It’s over. It’s been over for a year; why won’t it go away? When birth trauma is triggered it can stop you in your tracks. Birth trauma is real!
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Mother Nature’s Change In Plans: My Plus Size Emergency C-Section
It was time to let go of the natural birth idea and let science listen to the message Mother Nature was sending. It was time to have a plus size emergency c-section.
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A Single Umbilical Artery Pregnancy Story
The news, of having a Single Umbilical Artery pregnancy, cast a shadow of uncertainty over what should have been a giddy, happy, excited time preparing for the arrival of our first child.
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A Fight For My Plus Size Natural Birth
I had planned a plus size natural birth from the beginning. So I was trying to mentally talk myself into believing that I could handle the pain for just a few seconds at a time.
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What My Obese Pregnancy Taught Me About My Body
So many of us, experiencing an obese pregnancy, have been misled to believe we can’t have a healthy outcome. The reality is people of all sizes can and do have healthy pregnancies! This is Adriane’s story.
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The Difference Size Friendly Care Makes: The Birth Story Of Georgia Lin
The birth story of Georgia Lin truly demonstrates the difference in care plus size people receive when they connect with size-friendly care providers.
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I Can’t Believe I Doubted My Body: A Plus Size VBAC Story
I think back at those amazingly hard 30 hours and how emotional they were. I can’t believe I doubted my body and my baby. This is my plus size VBAC story!
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You Don’t Get To Decide How Your Birth Will Go: A Transfer Birth Story
Moral of my story, as a plus size mom, is that you get to take your care into your own hands. This is my transfer birth story from a birth center to the hospital.
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My Plus Size Pregnancy Fears Unrealized
After years of not conceiving I thought it wasn’t possible. I was shocked to see that perfect little plus sign. I immediately worried, would I have a healthy plus size pregnancy and baby? Would l look pregnant or just fat? I had so many plus size pregnancy fears!
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Somewhere Over The Rainbow: Giving Birth After Pregnancy Loss
The loss of a pregnancy is something that impacts people in many different ways – and all of those ways should be honored. A mother should be supported as well as her partner. This is one mom’s story of giving birth after pregnancy loss…
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Sarah’s Plus Size VBAC Homebirth Story
My body did know what to do, and it was doing it! This is Sarah’s plus size VBAC homebirth story following a traumatic cesarean birth.
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My Brown-Haired Boy: A Birth Center Birth Story
The night before I got the positive pregnancy test, I had a dream. A little boy with brown hair, waiting calmly. This is my birth center birth story!
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PCOS Conception Story: Stop Telling Me To Just Lose Weight
I thought my body was a failure because we had a different journey than others. But then I look at my daughter and think to myself “my goodness, my body was perfect for her”.
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A Mother’s Strength: Plus Size C-Section Birth Story
Not all pregnancies, births, or postpartum experiences go according to plan. This is Letrez’s plus size c-section birth story. This is a mother’s strength!
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Summer’s Birth Story: Controlled C-Section
As a surgical nurse, I know that a controlled situation is much better than an emergency. I did not want to get into an emergency situation so I opted to go for the controlled c-section.
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Becoming a Mother After Three Pregnancy Losses
My baby girl Everly Noelle was born on January 18th, 2016! She was two weeks early, born via unplanned c-section because of her size. My husband is 6’8 and I’m 5’11 …we are big people so clearly a big baby was on the way!
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Rachel’s Plus Size Surrogate Story
Ever since I was 9 years-old I have wanted to be a surrogate. When I heard some women carried babies for other women who were unable, I thought it was so incredible and I told myself right then that if I was lucky enough to be able to have healthy pregnancies, this is what I wanted to do.
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The Birth of Maya (Home Birth in Canada)
Trista joins the Plus Size Mommy Memoirs blog to share the birth of Maya. This is her second child and she had a home birth in Canada.
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I Had Successfully Pushed Her Into This World: A VBAC Story
They tried to be as reassuring as possible, but let me know another c-section would be a possibility depending on how the next few hours played out. I had silent tears, I prayed, I talked to my body, I talked to my baby, I pretty much begged the universe to let me have this baby vaginally. I eventually drifted off to sleep, too tired to cry or do much of anything else.
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A Gift To My Daughter: Her Birth Story From 1979
I believe in my mother’s era there was a popular song with the lyric………”Love, Marriage, and then something about a Baby Carriage” and though after being the oldest child of four children who felt like she had already been a mom and therefore believing I did not want to have my own children, I arrived home from my honeymoon in July of 1978 with my hormones raging with those song lyrics playing over and over in my head!
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From PCOS to Motherhood: Megan’s Story
I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was 18. The afternoon after my diagnosis, I cried on my way to work because the first thing I saw when I Googled PCOS was INFERTILITY. I always wanted to be a mommy and all I had were the heartbreaking search results that told me it would be a gift I might never receive.
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A Beautiful Hospital Birth Story
This is a beautiful hospital birth story of a plus size mom who felt completely supported by compassionate care providers and her loving family.
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Not All Care Providers are Fat Shamers: A Birth Story
When I was 17 I was diagnosed with PCOS and told because of it and my size I would be unlikely to have children. I always wanted to be a mother, it was my biggest dream.
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My Birth Story: Debunking Plus Size Pregnancy Myths
My name is Jesika and I felt like I should share my pregnancy story. I am 26 years old, 5’9″ and weighed 305 lbs when I found out I was pregnant.
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A Plus Size Birth Story: I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant
When Michelle posted her, I didn’t know I was pregnant story, on the Plus Size Mommy Memoirs Facebook page I immediately wanted to know more.
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My Size 24 Body is Capable of Birthing
My husband and I had been trying to conceive for about 6 months or so and I was really starting to think it would never happen again. We were blessed with my chunky 10lb baby boy 4 years ago, but my c-section birth I had with him was not what I had planned and I yearned for a VBAC.
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PCOS Birth Story of Hannah Rae
I am sharing my story because I found great comfort in reading the memoirs of other mommies who had delivered naturally, especially women considered plus-size.
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Giving Birth with the Flu: A Plus Size Birth Story
Meg shares her incredible natural birth story while having the flu. She wasn’t able to touch her new baby boy for 48 hours after his birth. I can’t imagine.
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