Nov 11, 2013 | Bed rest, Empowered, Epidural, Episiotomy, Exhaustion, Fear, Pain, Pitocin, Postpartum
As a female, our natural ability in nature is to bear children. Creating a child, and giving birth to that being is a miracle. I, myself, have experienced that miracle and have written this to share my pregnancy and labor experience. I have felt so empowered as a...
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...
May 7, 2013 | Breast feeding, Cesarean birth, Epidural, Long Labor, Pain, Pitocin
On Thursday April 18 at 8 am I had an appointment at my maternity clinic to check my blood pressure. I was feeling very uncomfortable and swollen, but when I woke that day my feet were so big I couldn’t even shove my shoes on! Austin sat me down, undid and...
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...
Feb 27, 2011 | Bathroom birth, First Birth, Hospital Birth, Midwife Attended, Overdue, Partner Attended, Passing out, Pitocin, Tearing, Third birth
I am choosing to submit my story anonymously because, although this is my personal, true story, it also belongs to my children. I have their personal birth stories written down and stored in a special place to be shared with them when the time is right. I do not...
