A Journey In Self-Love Through My Plus-Size Pregnancy And Birth
My journey in self-love truly went through a transformation through my plus-size pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.
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Laughter: A Natural Plus Size Birth Story
This hospital natural plus size birth story is full of laughter, self-advocacy, and love! It is possible to have a positive outcome when properly supported.
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Brooke’s Strength: A Plus Size HELLP Syndrome Story
This birth story isn’t the experience Brook ever thought she’d have to share, but it’s hers and it matters! Just like all Plus Size Birth stories matter.
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Our Dream Of Becoming Mommies
My wife and I wanted to start a family right away, we just were not sure how we were going accomplish our dream of becoming mommies.
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Becca’s 38 Week Induction Birth Story
After being monitored twice a week from weeks 35 – 37, my blood pressure was still creeping up each appointment. This is my 38 week induction birth story.
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My Amazing 400 lbs Birth Story
I never thought I would be a mom because of my size. Then I got pregnant! This is my 400 pound birth story with a good doctor and amazing support system.
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What 5 Miscarriages And One Stillbirth Taught Me About PCOS
This story of miscarriages and one stillbirth contains a trigger warning for pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and assault. My name is April-Marie and I live with a condition that most people do not know exists. Or some have a lack of proper education about it. Most people don’t understand my frustrations when I tell them I…
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When A Beautiful Birth Ends And Life With A Sick Baby Begins
I had an amazing all natural birth. Then at my baby’s twenty-four-hour newborn screening, it was discovered that my son had congenital heart defects.
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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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I Am 1 in 4. I Am A Mother!
I am 1 in 4. 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss. I never wanted to be a part of this club. My pregnancy was 100% healthy but on July 26, 2018, my life changed.
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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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Plus Size VBAC Story – I Can’t Believe I Doubted My Body
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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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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VBAC Story – I Had Successfully Pushed Her Into This World
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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PCOS To Motherhood: Megan’s Story
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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Debunking Plus Size Pregnancy Myths
Jesika bought into all of the plus size pregnancy myths and assumed she’d have a difficult pregnancy and birth due to her size.
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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
Vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) birth story shared by a plus size mom, her size 24 body is capable of birthing! That’s a beautiful thing!
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Giving Birth with the Flu
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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Unforgettable Plus Size Twin Pregnancy And Birth Story
Many people believe that twins must be before via c-section. However, it is possible for plus size women to birth twins vaginally! This is one story….
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Trauma, Fear, & Transformation: Australian Plus Size Birth Story
An Australian plus size birth story of fear and then transformation. This woman feared she couldn’t have a healthy outcome. But she did!
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Forced Cesarean – Hilary’s Birth Story
“You are too obese to give birth vaginally, so you will be having a C-section.” This is Hilary’s heart-wrenching story of her forced cesarean.
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Braeden’s Birth Story: Plus Size Natural Childbirth With A Midwife
My life will be forever changed by the transformative experience of a plus size natural childbirth with a midwife. This is Braeden’s birth story…
