Aug 11, 2020 | Bed rest, Cesarean birth, Exhaustion, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Pain, Partner Attended, Pitocin, Post-operative healing
I am a twenty year old first time mother, two weeks postpartum. This is my birth story. I was thirty-six weeks and one day pregnant – which basically felt like an eternity. After breezing through the first and second trimesters with little complications, I was...
Sep 25, 2018 | Bed rest, Breast Pump, Cesarean birth, Early birth, Exhaustion, Hospital Birth, Pain, Preeclampsia, Premature
Taylor and I found out we were expecting Baby Aiden at the end of October 2017 and couldn’t have been more excited and terrified at the same time. My first trimester I did not have too many symptoms. I did not normally have morning sickness if I snacked throughout the...
Nov 11, 2013 | Bed rest, Empowered, Epidural, Episiotomy, Exhaustion, Fear, Pain, Pitocin, Postpartum
As a female, our natural ability in nature is to bear children. Creating a child, and giving birth to that being is a miracle. I, myself, have experienced that miracle and have written this to share my pregnancy and labor experience. I have felt so empowered as a...
Mar 4, 2011 | Bed rest, Bleeding, Cesarean birth, Epidural, Hospital Birth, Lamaze, Pain, Premature, Twins
Pain. I was afraid of the pain. Almost from the minute I knew I was pregnant with twins, I dreaded “the trauma of childbirth.” I could handle the three to five months of nausea, the insomnia, the weight gain, even the responsibilities of the next eighteen or so...
