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...
Jul 30, 2019 | Afterbirth, Breast feeding, Home birth, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Vaginal Birth, Vocalizing
It all started on Sunday, April 28th. I really wanted to go on a walk, so I told Patrick we should go on a short, mellow family walk on the Junction Creek Trail. We decided that Silas would ride his bike on the trail while Patrick and I walked, and we had a nice...
Jun 4, 2018 | Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Speaking up, Vaginal Birth, Vocalizing
April 9, 2018, I woke up at 3:30 am to one of my roommates yelling at her dogs. The previous night, we had eaten fried gator tail medallions, which I maintain as what actually triggered true labor. I felt the first contraction around 3:40 am. I had been having bouts...
Sep 16, 2013 | Doula Attended, Empowered, Epidural, Fast labor, Fear, Hospital Birth, Overdue, Partner Attended, Second birth, Vaginal Birth, Vocalizing
My second baby, due September 29, 2012, wasn’t born until October 13. My first child had been born a week and a half past his due date, but surely the second wouldn’t be even later than that, right? I assumed. I hoped. By the second week in October, I was desperate...
May 6, 2013 | Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Vocalizing
I was never treated as bad as in the morning after the birth of my child : Switzerland Richterswil: The midwife in the morning came in and bullied me. In the midst of unfriendly treatment, she came, snapped my underwear and tore them down murmuring something like as...
Apr 13, 2011 | Afterpains, Child attended, Doula Attended, Grief, Home birth, HypnoBirthing, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, Third birth, VBAC, Vocalizing, Waterbirth
I started labour on Thursday but petered out I think mostly due to the fact that another woman who was using my midwife went at the same time and I didn’t have a provider. my doula came over and she was wonderful. On Friday night I went out for dinner with dh...
