My Birth Story: From Home Birth to C-Section. I’m currently pregnant with my third, and it’s got me thinking about my first pregnancy and birth with my eldest son. I don't think I've ever told the story in full, (and how I so royally fucked it up), so here it is. In a word: it was a shit-show. I was totally inflexible about my "birth plan", and things went fully tits up. Part One: Leading up to the birth I was dead set on a blissful home birth with zero medical intervention,