Oct 28, 2013 | Home birth, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Planned Pregnancy, Third birth, Vaginal Birth, Waterbirth
My husband and I had two beautiful daughters, ages almost 2 and 3 1/2 when we decided to try for another baby in September of 2010. Our first two were conceived very easily and only took one month to get pregnant! For our third child, things were different; I was...
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 30, 2013 | Empowered, Home birth, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, Siblings, Waterbirth
These thoughts, which have since been revised, were written after the birth of our second child Micah Joseph with some additions after the birth of our third child Isaac Mathieu, born on July 14, 2013. (Note: words related to birth and sex and human anatomy are used...
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,...
Jun 3, 2013 | Fear, Home birth, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, Planned Pregnancy, Vaginal Birth, Waterbirth
This is going to be outrageously long, sorry. However, the reason for me writing it down is to remember all the little details that I probably would not be able to recall years down the road. Deciding to have a natural, un-medicated birth at home began with not having...
May 14, 2013 | Birth Center, Exhaustion, Midwife Attended, Ring of Fire
A Pickle Is Born! It all began with your confusing due date. First it was May 13th, then May 15th, and finally we settled on May 18th. It may not seem like much difference, but in the last days of pregnancy the anticipation combined with living in the body of a...
