Nov 15, 2018 | Epidural, Exhaustion, Guilt, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, PTSD, Second birth, Vaginal Birth
My first contraction hit me. It was 11:30pm on November 12, 2017. I was a week overdue and I had an induction scheduled for 7:30am the next morning. Boom! Next contraction, only 5 minutes apart. They were very hard labor contractions. My husband got our bag ready at...
Nov 12, 2018 | Epidural, Hospital Birth, Pain, Partner Attended, Pitocin, Vaginal Birth, Yoga
I decided on pizza before I checked into the hospital to deliver my baby. I was scheduled to be at the hospital at 7pm on a stormy evening in late October. After pizza, my husband, mom, and I headed to the delivery ward. The hospital smell reminded me of all of the...
Sep 25, 2018 | Bed rest, Breast Pump, Cesarean birth, Early birth, Exhaustion, Hospital Birth, Pain, Preeclampsia, Premature
Taylor and I found out we were expecting Baby Aiden at the end of October 2017 and couldn’t have been more excited and terrified at the same time. My first trimester I did not have too many symptoms. I did not normally have morning sickness if I snacked throughout the...
Sep 18, 2018 | Epidural, Hospital Birth, Lamaze, Long Labor, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, Pitocin
On July 30, 2018, at 6:21 a.m., Grady Tate Hobson was born. He clocked in weighing 8 pounds 7 ounces and measuring 21 inches. Despite being my fourth baby, his labor was the slowest. After mentioning that to my midwife and OB, they both said that tends to happen often...
Jul 30, 2018 | Doula Attended, Empowered, Fast labor, Hospital Birth, Pain, Partner Attended, Spiritual, Vaginal Birth, Yoga
On the morning of Friday, June 22nd, my husband left for his one early shift of the week at around 1:30am. He hugged and kissed me before he left per usual. I drifted in/out of sleep as always, anticipating getting up for work in just a few short hours. At 2 am, I...
Jul 23, 2018 | Doula Attended, Epidural, Hospital Birth, Long Labor, Pain, Partner Attended, Pitocin, Preeclampsia, Spiritual, Vaginal Birth
At our 35-week prenatal appointment, my husband, Shaun, and I were not looking forward to the long wait time at the doctor’s office. The pregnancy had been relatively uneventful. The highlights of the pregnancy had been the ultrasounds, from the first trimester one...
