Jul 30, 2019 | Afterbirth, Breast feeding, Home birth, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Vaginal Birth, Vocalizing
It all started on Sunday, April 28th. I really wanted to go on a walk, so I told Patrick we should go on a short, mellow family walk on the Junction Creek Trail. We decided that Silas would ride his bike on the trail while Patrick and I walked, and we had a nice...
May 19, 2011 | Afterbirth, Afterpains, Amniocentesis, Breast feeding, Early birth, Epidural, First Birth, Grief, Hospital Birth, Mourning, Planned Pregnancy, Redemption, Reiki
Loss, Life and Love I wanted to have a baby for the first time in my life only after I watched my husband suffer through two surgeries for colon cancer over a five-week period. My mind was numb and I was almost on the edge of a nervous breakdown watching the man I...
May 19, 2011 | Afterbirth, Doula Attended, First Birth, GBS, Hibiclens, HypnoBirthing, Long Labor, Midwife Attended, Overdue, Partner Attended, Ring of Fire, Surrender, Tearing, Waterbirth
Surrender: My Birth Story Surrender: verb, to give oneself up, as into the power of another; submit or yield. Before I had a baby of my own I was/am a doula. I’ve been with women as they’ve crossed over into motherhood in both hospitals and birth centers....
May 19, 2011 | Afterbirth, Breast feeding, Colic, Empowered, Fast labor, Home birth, Marriage, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Pregnancy test, Therapy, Waterbirth, Yoga
The day I found I am pregnant I was on a business trip to a central laboratory down in England to collect data for my research as a part of my job as a research scientist at a University in Scotland. 30 years old, I was having a long-distance relationship with my...