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...
Aug 18, 2020 | Cesarean birth, Epidural, Hospital Birth, HypnoBirthing, Passing out, Pitocin, Third birth, VBAC
“Can I have a vaginal birth in the future?” That was the first question I asked my doctor after he came in to check on me after my very unexpected emergency c-section. She assured me that I would very likely be a good candidate, and I didnt need to worry...
Dec 30, 2019 | Early birth, Hospital Birth, Partner Attended, Third birth, Vaginal Birth
September 16th 2019, it was a good evening. I wasn’t expecting to go into labor in the middle of the night, it was earlier than my original due date. My due date was September 24th 2019, i was nervous and kinda scared because Liam is my 3rd but its been a while...
Oct 28, 2013 | Home birth, Midwife Attended, Partner Attended, Planned Pregnancy, Third birth, Vaginal Birth, Waterbirth
My husband and I had two beautiful daughters, ages almost 2 and 3 1/2 when we decided to try for another baby in September of 2010. Our first two were conceived very easily and only took one month to get pregnant! For our third child, things were different; I was...
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...
Mar 25, 2011 | Breech, Cesarean birth, Epidural, Genetic Disorder, Planned Pregnancy, Redemption, Third birth
How My Body Was Redeemed by Childbirth (Just Not How I Expected) I knew early on that I wanted to have babies. There were significant obstacles to this desire (more of a calling, really), including my having a genetic bone disorder called osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)....
