Aug 25, 2020 | Cervical lip, Empowered, Fear, Home birth, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Postpartum, Third birth, Vaginal Birth, Waterbirth
My heart poured out raw, open, exposed. I need to write my story. The story that is hard to adequately put into words. It is the birth story of my third child and third daughter Laurel Grace. I use to have vaginismus. A very little known condition. I felt most medical...
Mar 7, 2018 | Breast feeding, Cervical lip, Exhaustion, Home birth, Long Labor, Midwife Attended, Ring of Fire
This is the story of my homebirth – a 78 hour labor. Monday morning we had our Bradley class review. When we left, I told Joey that I felt better and much more confident about the baby coming. That night, I went to bed and spent most of the night dreaming I was...
Apr 13, 2011 | Cervical lip, Child attended, Cohash, Doula Attended, Home birth, HypnoBirthing, Midwife Attended, Ring of Fire, Second birth, Spiritual, VBAC
In the months preceding older daughter’s birth I was still grieving what was suppose to be but never was. I got a lot of “you and the baby are okay, what is there to complain about?” but I did feel like a failure, even though in my head I went over...
Feb 27, 2011 | Cervical lip, Empowered, First Birth, Home birth, Midwife Attended, Nesting, Overdue, Partner Attended, Yoga
My visceral desire for a child had consumed me for months leading up to my pregnancy. I intuitively knew that the process of growing and birthing a life would be a powerful healing experience for me– I had read Ina May’s Spiritual Midwifery when I was in...
