Aug 25, 2020 | Cervical lip, Empowered, Fear, Home birth, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Postpartum, Third birth, Vaginal Birth, Waterbirth
My heart poured out raw, open, exposed. I need to write my story. The story that is hard to adequately put into words. It is the birth story of my third child and third daughter Laurel Grace. I use to have vaginismus. A very little known condition. I felt most medical...
Jul 21, 2016 | Bleeding, Breast feeding, Depression, Epidural, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Partner Attended, Postpartum
I had a difficult pregnancy. We conceived easily, the month after we had decided we would “never be ready” for kids, so why not now? But after the first few weeks of excitement wore off, after we had told our parents and started to plan, I got sick. Not just...
Jan 21, 2015 | Empowered, Fear, Home birth, Partner Attended, Postpartum, Second birth, Transformation, Vaginal Birth
The Advent of Baby A In the late spring, I learned that I was expecting a baby. This new baby would be my second child. My daughter, R, was already 16 and looking into colleges. My boyfriend of many years, T, has 2 children of his own – both boys, and both...
Nov 11, 2013 | Bed rest, Empowered, Epidural, Episiotomy, Exhaustion, Fear, Pain, Pitocin, Postpartum
As a female, our natural ability in nature is to bear children. Creating a child, and giving birth to that being is a miracle. I, myself, have experienced that miracle and have written this to share my pregnancy and labor experience. I have felt so empowered as a...
Oct 9, 2013 | Empowered, Fast labor, Partner Attended, Postpartum, Vaginal Birth
Goodness, I can’t even believe that three entire months have passed since the birth of our little Skylar. And also? I forgot how difficult postpartum can be! The beautiful miracle of a med free delivery followed by my body realizing just what had happened to it...
