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Every woman has choices to make in birth.
Joyful or tragic, the outcomes of our birth choices will follow us into our graves. Following are two birth stories- similar in some ways, as opposite as reasoning allows in others. A year and a half after giving birth to my first son John, I was pregnant with Willie. I decided I would give birth on my hands and knees because that had worked so well with John, but in a dream I was shown otherwise. In the dream I was watching a woman giving birth standing up.