Aug 16, 2016 | Cesarean birth, Epidural, First Birth, Hospital Birth
Saturday morning, June 1, 2015, I wake up with this crazy urge. Pee. I get up, or rather I roll out of bed and head to the bathroom (I am on my 38th week of pregnancy). Everything goes as normal, so I head back to bed. Check the time… it’s 3:30 am. Laying there WIDE...
Feb 18, 2016 | Cesarean birth, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Pitocin
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Dec 18, 2014 | Breast feeding, Cesarean birth, Empowered, Midwife Attended, Pain
A Different Birth Story: Healing from a Traumatic C-Section by Allison Korn The day after she got married, Andrea flew down to Ecuador with new husband in tow, to be at my side during the last two days of my four-day labor as I tried to birth my son, Lucas. She...
Oct 9, 2013 | Breast feeding, Cesarean birth, Exhaustion, Fear, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, Pitocin
Thursday, June 27th, 2013 – The days following up to my induced labor, I had three kinds of rashes. PUPPS, and 2 unknown rashes, that the doctors could not figure out what it was. These rashes were painfully itchy. I couldn’t sleep, or move. They thought...
May 7, 2013 | Breast feeding, Cesarean birth, Epidural, Long Labor, Pain, Pitocin
On Thursday April 18 at 8 am I had an appointment at my maternity clinic to check my blood pressure. I was feeling very uncomfortable and swollen, but when I woke that day my feet were so big I couldn’t even shove my shoes on! Austin sat me down, undid and...
Apr 26, 2013 | Cesarean birth, Doula Attended, Epidural, Hospital Birth, Long Labor, Pain
I have two daughters, so have two stories, but they are so integrally related and my first story defines my second and my second defines my first so importantly that they have become one story. Annabel Wren was born June 23, 2007 and Emaline Iris was born 4 years...