Mar 7, 2018 | Breast feeding, Cervical lip, Exhaustion, Home birth, Long Labor, Midwife Attended, Ring of Fire
This is the story of my homebirth – a 78 hour labor. Monday morning we had our Bradley class review. When we left, I told Joey that I felt better and much more confident about the baby coming. That night, I went to bed and spent most of the night dreaming I was...
Nov 17, 2016 | Breast feeding, Pain, Partner Attended
I gave birth to my beautiful boy, Cooper, on the 17th of March 2016. As with all pregnancies, there were moments of fear, nervousness and pure joy, but none of this could prepare me for what was to come. At 41 weeks and 2 days, I was induced at the mater hospital. My...
Jul 21, 2016 | Bleeding, Breast feeding, Depression, Epidural, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Partner Attended, Postpartum
I had a difficult pregnancy. We conceived easily, the month after we had decided we would “never be ready” for kids, so why not now? But after the first few weeks of excitement wore off, after we had told our parents and started to plan, I got sick. Not just...
Mar 30, 2015 | Breast feeding, Doula Attended, Empowered, Exhaustion, Home birth, Long Labor, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Ring of Fire
Early Labor It was roughly 2:30 AM that 23rd day of July 2014—a typical Wednesday I thought. At 41.3 weeks pregnant I was all too familiar with spontaneous contractions (false alarms) that colored various segments of my wobbly days and kept me awake at night. “Yup.” I...
Dec 18, 2014 | Breast feeding, Cesarean birth, Empowered, Midwife Attended, Pain
A Different Birth Story: Healing from a Traumatic C-Section by Allison Korn The day after she got married, Andrea flew down to Ecuador with new husband in tow, to be at my side during the last two days of my four-day labor as I tried to birth my son, Lucas. She...
Oct 9, 2013 | Breast feeding, Cesarean birth, Exhaustion, Fear, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Pain, Partner Attended, Pitocin
Thursday, June 27th, 2013 – The days following up to my induced labor, I had three kinds of rashes. PUPPS, and 2 unknown rashes, that the doctors could not figure out what it was. These rashes were painfully itchy. I couldn’t sleep, or move. They thought...
