blogs & birth stories

Dear Ladies of Nativiti, I was delivered by Miss Carol and my daddy in the tub of the yellow room. I am now 5 months old and doing really well. Mommy and Daddy say I'm growing up too fast for them! Don't tell anybody, but I've got them wrapped around my little finger. I love to kick and splash water all over Mommy at bath time. She calls me her little waterbaby! I stay busy during the day with naps, playing in my walker, watching my basset hound, Harley, and jumping in my jumpster. I've go

When I found out I was pregnant with my second child, I decided to look into having him at a birthing center…only for financial purposes. I had my first at a hospital with an epidural, and I had a great experience…no complaints. To be honest, I DID NOT want to go to a birthing center. I was absolutely terrified of the pain. I didn’t even know of one close by. All within a week, I ran into three people who were either having their baby at Nativiti, or had already had their baby there. They

I absolutely loved our experience with Nativiti! I am so grateful for the Lord leading us to their care for our 4th pregnancy. After having 3 long hospital births with lots of interventions, I knew deep down that I did not want to have that experience again. I never felt connected to the process in the hospital. I always felt uncared for by my doctors and rushed through the process. Oh but Nativiti! The facility was like a sweet cozy home to us and we immediately felt at home when we walked in f

I wouldn’t change a single thing about my labor and birth of our son, Preston; my 36 hour, OP positioned, back labor, start-and-stop labor! If it hadn’t been for the grace of God and Jaelin and her team at Nativiti, I can honestly say this birth story would have a much different tone. My labor started somewhere around 2 in the morning on a Saturday. I kept waking up every hour feeling a bit like I needed to vomit or something, which I thought I for sure had gotten sick from going out on a