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...
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...
May 16, 2017 | Doula Attended, Empowered, Exhaustion, First Birth, Home birth, Long Labor, Midwife Attended, Pain
It was the morning of Friday, October 7th, eight days past my “guess date” for our baby, and I was driving home after a night shift. On the drive, I saw the most breathtaking fall sunrise of pinks and oranges with clouds radiating the texture of the sky and the...
May 11, 2017 | Fast labor, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended
I was 40 weeks and 4 days with my first child. We knew from our 10 week scan that it was a she. A girl… we always wanted one. So I had a delightful pregnancy. Getting things ready for our little princess to come home. But by 40 weeks, I started to get worried...
May 10, 2016 | Empowered, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Vaginal Birth
Right from the moment I found out I was pregnant, I planned on using visualisations to help me through the birth. My story tells how they worked for me. Contraction like pains and a bloody show on the Wednesday evening, two days before my due date was all the...
Feb 29, 2016 | Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Second birth, Tearing
A Wondrous Natural Birth I knew I didn’t want to give birth in a hospital but I wasn’t quite sure if I wanted to go drug free. I spent a lot of time weighing my options, talking with a friend who had two natural births and watching “The Business of...
