Dec 17, 2019 | Breast feeding, Child attended, Home birth, Partner Attended, Siblings, Vaginal Birth, Vocalizing
By November 9th, 2019 it felt like I had been pregnant for years. Most of the day I felt fairly normal, until around 4:30 in the afternoon I had to use the bathroom and realized that I couldn’t stop peeing. Of course, it wasn’t all pee. I had begun to leak...
Apr 13, 2011 | Afterpains, Child attended, Doula Attended, Grief, Home birth, HypnoBirthing, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, Third birth, VBAC, Vocalizing, Waterbirth
I started labour on Thursday but petered out I think mostly due to the fact that another woman who was using my midwife went at the same time and I didn’t have a provider. my doula came over and she was wonderful. On Friday night I went out for dinner with dh...
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...
Mar 9, 2011 | Breech, Child attended, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Premature, Second birth, Spiritual, Weaning
A GODDESS RISING! “Okay Babe…This is the last time for milk. You are a big boy now. You can do it. Mommy will still be here for you.” Those were the words I whispered to my soon to be three year old son as he nursed for what I knew would be the last time. I must...
