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...
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...
Feb 19, 2019 | Bathroom birth, Fast labor, Home birth, Partner Attended, Second birth, Vaginal Birth
My son Milo was born into my own arms, with my husband standing beside me. My water broke at 2:00 am and he was here by 3:15. That’s the short story, but the longer version is much more interesting. Lyric, my first, was a week late. Everyone assured me that wouldn’t...
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...
May 16, 2017 | Doula Attended, Empowered, Exhaustion, First Birth, Home birth, Long Labor, Midwife Attended, Pain
It was the morning of Friday, October 7th, eight days past my “guess date” for our baby, and I was driving home after a night shift. On the drive, I saw the most breathtaking fall sunrise of pinks and oranges with clouds radiating the texture of the sky and the...
