Jul 16, 2018 | Epidural, Hospital Birth, Pain, Partner Attended, Vaginal Birth
When I was pregnant with my second baby, I was under the care of a high-risk OB due to my history – previous miscarriages (one in the second trimester), and a subchorionic hematoma. At my regularly scheduled 39 week appointment with my doctor, I told her I was really...
Aug 31, 2017 | Empowered, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Pain, Partner Attended, Vaginal Birth
Freckles It was autumn when I peed on a stick and saw two pink lines. The very word “autumn” brings a flood of sensory memories, suffused with nausea: cool, crisp days; the colorful trees of old St. Louis neighborhoods; the Indian masala chai my husband used to make...
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...
Feb 9, 2017 | Fast labor, Hospital Birth, Overdue, Pain, Vaginal Birth
I was 40 weeks and six days pregnant with my third child, and feeling that awful, anxious, going-to-be-pregnant-forever feeling that only an overdue mother knows. My sister came to stay with us to help with our older children, and we sat up talking until midnight....
Nov 17, 2016 | Breast feeding, Pain, Partner Attended
I gave birth to my beautiful boy, Cooper, on the 17th of March 2016. As with all pregnancies, there were moments of fear, nervousness and pure joy, but none of this could prepare me for what was to come. At 41 weeks and 2 days, I was induced at the mater hospital. My...
May 19, 2015 | Empowered, First Birth, Pain
Details from October 23, 2014. Will always be a day I remember detail for detail, the one day that changed my whole life, for I couldn’t not forget. October 23, 11:58, the contractions started… and they were killer. I spent that whole night moving from my bed, to the...
