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...
Sep 16, 2013 | Doula Attended, Empowered, Epidural, Fast labor, Fear, Hospital Birth, Overdue, Partner Attended, Second birth, Vaginal Birth, Vocalizing
My second baby, due September 29, 2012, wasn’t born until October 13. My first child had been born a week and a half past his due date, but surely the second wouldn’t be even later than that, right? I assumed. I hoped. By the second week in October, I was desperate...
Jun 10, 2013 | Fear, Grief, Guilt, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Mourning, Planned Pregnancy, Stillbirth, Vaginal Birth
My name is Morgan, my husband and I met when we were both pretty young, about 13 years ago this Feb. we worked together at a local grocery store and well that’s, where it all began. I moved on to different jobs, and by Spring of 2004 Rick asked me to Marry him,...
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...
Apr 8, 2013 | First Birth, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended
My first child was born on September 3, 2012, a Monday, but not just any Monday: Labor Day, which anyone can tell you is infinitely better than your average Monday, as well as an appropriate day to give birth. My husband Andy and I spent that weekend trying to...
Dec 4, 2012 | Breast feeding, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Second birth, Siblings, Vaginal Birth, Yoga
Coral Sierra Platt Born: 2/4/08 at 1:23am 7lbs 10oz – 19.5 inches It was Saturday 2/2/08, two days before the birth of our little girl, Coral Sierra (FYI: we kept the gender a surprise). My due date was 2/7/08 and I felt the strong need to spend some quiet...
