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...
Aug 4, 2020 | Fast labor, First Birth, Hospital Birth, HypnoBirthing, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Vaginal Birth, Waterbirth
It all started when my wife was pregnant with our first daughter. We were at one of the antenatal classes and everyone was talking about how scared they were about the pain of giving birth. One of the girls mentioned hypnobirthing and how she read a book that took all...
Jul 28, 2020 | coronavirus, Epidural, Hospital Birth, Pain, Partner Attended, Pitocin, Vaginal Birth
“She’s still breech.” These were the only words I heard the morning of my scheduled external cephalic version or ecv. “You’ve experienced this before, you know what to expect,” I told myself. And I did which was sort of the terrifying part. My second son just 22...
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...
Dec 30, 2019 | Early birth, Hospital Birth, Partner Attended, Third birth, Vaginal Birth
September 16th 2019, it was a good evening. I wasn’t expecting to go into labor in the middle of the night, it was earlier than my original due date. My due date was September 24th 2019, i was nervous and kinda scared because Liam is my 3rd but its been a while...
Dec 17, 2019 | Breast feeding, Child attended, Home birth, Partner Attended, Siblings, Vaginal Birth, Vocalizing
By November 9th, 2019 it felt like I had been pregnant for years. Most of the day I felt fairly normal, until around 4:30 in the afternoon I had to use the bathroom and realized that I couldn’t stop peeing. Of course, it wasn’t all pee. I had begun to leak...
