The story readers love most
Simone's fearless birth – in a stream
From deep fear to giving birth outdoors, in running water, entirely on her own terms. The most-read story we've ever published.
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Women like you, on the other side of the fear
Real healing journeys and positive birth stories from women who carried tokophobia, anxiety and trauma – and what their lives look like now. Honest and hopeful, never sugar-coated.
Every story here is shared with its owner's blessing, told the way she wanted it told.
Healing journeys
Women who carried tokophobia or trauma – and put it down. Some went on to have babies, some didn't. Healing decides nothing for you; it just hands your life back.
Erin's tokophobia healing journey
Heather: from fear to motherhood
Celeste: from tokophobia to inner peace
Ramona: tokophobia and body dysmorphia
Becky: clearing her tokophobia fears
Amber's fear-clearing story
Susie: from fearful to surrogate
Jessica: from phobia to calling as a midwife
Alexia's tokophobia story – the birth of all this
Positive birth stories
Births that defied the horror stories – at home, in hospital, in theatre and once in a stream. Different settings, different choices, the same thread: the fear was dealt with first.
Rebecca's fear-free natural hospital birth
A gentle c-section positive birth story
Elsie's positive VBAC story
A fearless birth story from Sweden
Lucy's primal birth story
Emily's positive birth story
Melissa's positive natural birth story
Belah's positive birth story
Natasha's conscious pregnancy and positive birth
And when it doesn't go to plan
A publication that only printed perfect births would be part of the problem. Birth doesn't always cooperate – and women deserve stories about that too, told without drama and without despair.
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