I am not crafty, but I am super sentimental. I treasure memories (not unlike most other moms.:) And as far as mom memories go, not much tops the beautiful, distinct memories of a birth-giving day. Those precious first hours and days with a new baby are something to be remembered forever. After ...
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Natural Birth: at the Hospital or at the Birthing Center?
I've experienced three drastically births now: an emergency C-section, a natural VBAC at the hospital and finally a water birth at a birthing center. The purpose of this post is to give you a side by side comparison of what unmedicated labor and delivery was like for me at a hospital and at a ...
Life after the Third Baby (+a review of the new Omni 360 carrier by Ergobaby)
Life has been a series of figurative and literal storms for my family. In the past two months, my mother-in-law lost her battle with cancer and we experienced the deepest grief we've ever known, I gave birth to our third son a few days after her funeral, and Hurricane Harvey ...
How Nicodemus Helped Me Endure a Natural Birth
Giving birth hurts like the dickens. It doesn't have to--I know--because we have these wonderful drugs known as epidurals, but for me and my second baby, I wanted to do it naturally. I've told you before how my first birth went south. It wasn't just one thing that caused it to end in an emergency ...
Here are your Labor Pains, Adoptive Mom
The pain wasn't what I expected. I thought if I could take a hard punch, I could endure a contraction. But the pain ran achey deep. The labor pain--it makes you feel sick, weak, powerless; there is nothing you can really do to relieve it. So instead, you have to learn to endure it, cope ...
Trying for a VBAC (what you should know)
If you opened this post, then I'm guessing you've had a C-section. And since you're trying for a VBAC, I'd also bet that you didn't want to have that C-section. Maybe you cried. Maybe it felt like failure. Maybe you were terrified. Maybe you felt ashamed. Maybe you were fine with it but the recovery ...
The one thing every mom should put on her birth plan
I'm by no means a professional on the topic of labor and delivery, but I've lived through two vastly different births now. So I've learned a thing or two about birth plans. The overdue pregnancy with induced labor that ended in an emergency c-section taught me not to get too hung up on a birth ...
My husband live tweeted my birth
My husband is not a writer; in fact, he has one of the worst memory banks I've ever known for someone in his age bracket. But he IS a tweeter. And his live-tweeting of both of my births has been the sweetest thing for three reasons: 1.) It's his birth story. He would never, ever sit down ...
I love your birth photo, but I don’t love mine
I love birth photos. The ones with the exhausted new mom clutching her naked new baby in sheer joy. Love to see them, and love to hear the stories behind them. But, I don't have one of those. Or at least I didn't with my first baby. I have this kind of awkward picture that I’ve only let a ...