Jan 7, 2020 | Early birth, Epidural, Exhaustion, Fear, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, Premature, PTSD, Vaginal Birth
My birth story for my second baby is far from a beautiful, smooth journey. I’d been having extremely bad panic attacks for weeks, especially when someone mentioned the baby and I didn’t know why. I slowly started mentally declining but brushed it off as hormones and...
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...
