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Birth Stories

Every mother deserves a chance to tell her birth story.  Sharing the details of your baby’s birth – the highs and lows, the fears and triumphs – can be empowering and healing. Reading birth stories can be enlightening – bringing issues to light that you might not have thought about – and help inform your decisions. To read mothers’ stories of giving birth in Bangalore, click the links below.

Our Birth Stories page is a place for you to share your Bangalore birth story with other mothers. If you would like to publish your story on our website, please send it to bangalorebirth@gmail.com. If your birth experience in Bangalore has given you a gem of wisdom you’d like to share with other women, please add it to the end of your story. The name of your doctor and hospital will be removed before your story is posted on the website.

If you would like others to know about your experience with a particular doctor, hospital or clinic – whether the experience was positive or negative – please fill out our BBN Maternal Care Survey.  These surveys may be viewed at any of the BBN Mother-to-Mother (M2M) meetings.

Jaelyn’s Birth Story

It wasn’t what I had envisioned.  There is a short film from Mexico called Birth Day that shows a woman’s third birth, at home, in water.  The mood is celebratory.  Her family is all around to support her.  A midwife is there, but in the corner, only to come forward if there is a problem.  You can see what hard work this is for the mother as the contractions grow stronger, but there is joy in it as well.  When her baby is born the mother catches it herself and brings the newborn up out of the water.  There is something so pure about this
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Neetik

Birth Story of Neetik and afterwards.... Neetik came into our lives 2 weeks early on the afternoon of 27 Dec 2009. A friend had mentioned that labour pains felt like constipation pain so on the early hours of 27 Dec when I had  stomach ache, lose motions and vomiting I was sure I was not experiencing labour pains especially because I had satisfied my craving for Tibetan food at a not so hygienic place  the previous day.
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Ocean Birth Story

When Sharad and I decided to start a family, our search for an obstetrician began even before we got pregnant. Having heard how quite a few of my friends were driven into medically unnecessary cesareans, we knew of the horrors we could encounter during pregnancy and labour. But we were still optimistic since we were going to visit one of the best maternity hospitals that boasted of world class care. Boy, were we wrong! From doctors demanding unquestioning compliance to those that almost drove me to a miscarriage, we had had it all in the first 6 months.
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Sai Isha Simone Birth Story

Our beautiful daughter Saiisha Simone Swaminathan was born to us on 08.08.08 just after midnight in the loving environment of Corinna’s Birthing Center in Assagao, Goa. But my birth story started long before my daughter's birth.  It goes back to my mother's birth to me, to my days as a girl playing with my dolls; it links to my 19-year-old self, when I started training as a midwife; it connects to the woman I am now as a researcher in maternal health. So much goes into our birth stories.
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