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...
Jan 7, 2020 | Early birth, Epidural, Exhaustion, Fear, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, Premature, PTSD, Vaginal Birth
My birth story for my second baby is far from a beautiful, smooth journey. I’d been having extremely bad panic attacks for weeks, especially when someone mentioned the baby and I didn’t know why. I slowly started mentally declining but brushed it off as hormones and...
Jan 22, 2019 | Episiotomy, Fear, HypnoBirthing, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Uncategorized, Vaginal Birth
Dear Midwife, There are many things that I could tell you, but I want to start by saying that I’m not sure you fully understand the lasting impact that you can have on a woman and her family. My story starts as a positive one. We had met so many kind, encouraging and...
Mar 28, 2018 | Bleeding, Breast Pump, Cesarean birth, Epidural, Exhaustion, Fear, Hospital Birth, Second birth, Siblings, Speaking up, Surviving
Tuesday, August 23rd at 6am I was awoken by some strong contractions. I turned on my contraction timer app and laid there for a while. I wasn’t expecting much since I’d already been to triage twice for regular contractions and was sent home. Billy woke up about an...
Jun 29, 2017 | Epidural, Fear, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended
Plenty of Time by Natalie Giacone I took my time deciding to have a baby. There was of course the issue of needing to fall in love with a worthy man, for a change. And the fact that I moved to South East Asia in my early thirties where sex tourism tempted or...
Aug 23, 2016 | Epidural, Episiotomy, Fear, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Partner Attended
When I was pregnant, I was obsessed with birth stories. (Ok, I still am.) I would grill every mother I came into contact with and would Google into the late hours of the night trying to read and hear as many as possible. What fascinated me so much was that they were...
