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Mika’s Birth

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...

Preeclampsia emergency birth

Dec 9, 2019 | Breast feeding, Cesarean birth, Early birth, Epidural, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Planned Pregnancy, Preeclampsia, Pregnancy test, Premature

Subconsciously I knew I was pregnant the day you were conceived but never fully sure having not felt this feeling before, 3 weeks passed and I was driving home from work and knew I needed to check for sure, it was a solid positive! I called your dad at work straight...

The Fast Homebirth of Esmé

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...

A Numerical Birth Poem – finding peace

Apr 23, 2019 | Breast feeding, Doula Attended, Grief, Guilt, Pitocin, Planned Pregnancy, Second birth, Twins

I would like to begin by saying that I have planned and thought about being a mom for a long time. When I was 7 years old I met my friend from Taiwan named Emily and I wanted to have a daughter named Emily. We ended up having identical twins, Emily and Emma. This is...

Nicole’s Story

Apr 2, 2019 | Breast feeding, Doula Attended, Epidural, Exhaustion, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Long Labor, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, Pitocin, Vaginal Birth

Arista’s birth started slowly on a Tuesday morning with some bloody show. I woke my husband up at 6:00am to tell him, “I’m in labor. You may want to finish your dissertation now.” He got up fast, got dizzy, and went straight to work. After a day of baking and light...

Mayra’s Story

Mar 14, 2018 | Breast feeding, Doula Attended, Empowered, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Ring of Fire, Spiritual, Vaginal Birth

On Thursday, July 20th I sat in my office at work looking around feeling super anxious and ready for Giselle to be here. I was 39 weeks and 4 days pregnant. I had contractions come and go but they would always subside. I was staying super active. I was taking the...
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