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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...