Apr 16, 2019 | Afterpains, Bleeding, Epidural, Exhaustion, Hospital Birth, Pain, Partner Attended, Pitocin, Preeclampsia, Surviving, Vaginal Birth
“We’re going to go ahead and have Baby.” The nurse finally entered my room with a game plan. These words still resonate with me. I was filled with such emotion at this time. I was exhausted from 9 challenging months of pregnancy. I was anxious for the next steps. I...
Jun 24, 2011 | Afterpains, Doula Attended, Epidural, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Overdue, Pain, Partner Attended, Pitocin, Vaginal Birth
February 5, 2010, at 4pm, I sat on the end of my postpartum-room bed, cradling my hatted, swaddled, 8-hour-old baby, framed by a window filled with white light as the first flakes of twin record-breaking, city-paralyzing blizzards began twirling down the sky. February...
May 19, 2011 | Afterbirth, Afterpains, Amniocentesis, Breast feeding, Early birth, Epidural, First Birth, Grief, Hospital Birth, Mourning, Planned Pregnancy, Redemption, Reiki
Loss, Life and Love I wanted to have a baby for the first time in my life only after I watched my husband suffer through two surgeries for colon cancer over a five-week period. My mind was numb and I was almost on the edge of a nervous breakdown watching the man I...
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...
