My Birth Story: A Black Woman Hypnobirthing At Home

My precious Imani Ife made her fashionable debut on Friday, May 6, 2022 just in time for Mother’s Day. But, her birth story does not start the night before or even the day she was born. It starts the weeks and days before that. We had had several false alarms: once at 37 weeks when she’d dropped so low in my pelvis I became concerned she’d come before the 37/38 week mark, and then the second time, the…