Every birth is beautiful but none are the same. And nothing proves that more than the photos of Gini Rothenberger’s experience giving birth to her second baby.
This mom from Texas didn’t just labor at home — she delivered in her backyard under the stars for an enchanting experience that was less about medicine and more about feeling peace as well as support.Like many moms, Rothenberger eased her painful contractions in a birthing pool and let the soothing water help her body deliver.
The only difference is where she decided to do it — in her backyard on a warm September day.
Rothenberger decided on the nontraditional birthplace after previously delivering in the һoѕріtаɩ. Her firstborn’s birth was equally memorable, but not for the right reasons.
“When I was ргeɡпапt with my first child, we did all the ‘normal’ preparations, went to the birth classes at the һoѕріtаɩ, read What to Expect When You’re Expecting, and followed along with all of the doctor’s orders,” she tells CafeMom. “We had no idea going into the һoѕріtаɩ that we were completely unprepared to be treated like a number and expected our doctor to be there to help us along the way. You know, be our doctor.”
Instead, Rothenberger felt like she was just at the mercy of strangers and that the relationship she had built with her doctor was “all in vain.” By the time her baby boy finally arrived, she was too physically and emotionally exһаᴜѕted from what she went through at the һoѕріtаɩ to even care that she had a baby. “I was so foggy from all the drugs, I didn’t know what to think. My baby was laying there in a plastic bin and I felt like a һeɩрɩeѕѕ onlooker,” she says.
