I have been kinda sucking about posting, but this week will be better, I promise! Anywho, here is another birth story. A third child, a VBAC at home with a midwife. Casey’s Birth This baby is our third child. Rogan, now 5 yrs old, was born by caesarian. He was in the footling breech position, [...]
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I love Water Birth (that’s pretty much an awesome intro lol…) A Water Birth Now for a longer version of my birth story which you are welcome to put on the birth page. I will start at the beginning. I actually had thought a little about using water in my second birth, but the midwives [...]
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I think one of the main reasons pregnancy, labor, and delivery have taken such a ‘hospital’ turn is because of celebrities and TV shows. I don’t really think about it much, but tonight I was watching Friends, and the episode was when Rachel goes into labor. The minute it came on, I just saw it [...]
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I am a FIRM believer in VBAC, and even though this story is short, I just love VBAC stories. And I love that she had a doula 48 Hour VBAC HomeBirth Brandon Michael made his appearance at 6:59pm Thursday, October 1, 1998. He was born via VBAC at home after 48 hours of labor including [...]
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This topic is one I am a VERY strong supporter of. I plan to have one of these with all of my children from now on. 1 in 3 women have a Cesarean Section every year. This is just for a first Cesarean. Not subsequent ones. 90% of women choose to have an elective Cesarean [...]
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“Who are these people who have managed to live so well on so little while contributing so much to vegetarians and others worldwide? In truth, they’re a bunch of aging hippies.This community, so far ahead of its time, is the Farm, an experiment in communal living that began in 1971 when most of the current [...]
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This week’s story I thought was pretty interesting. I have always been told that twin births were high risk and they had to be in the hospital with an IV, just in case the second twin needed to come out in a hurry, being an emergency c-section. With all the reading I have been doing, [...]
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This one thought just wouldn’t escape my head this week. On TV there has been a lot of news about the Octuplet Mom and the great debate that this has started. And in my books I was reading a chapter on infertility and adoption and the like. And I figured that if I could write [...]
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I believe our culture is centered too much around hospitals. In my opinion, hospitals are where people to go to die. Probably not the best view. Since our country has this centered mindset, it’s not hard to imagine that no one knows what a doula is. Many women, even if they have been to childbirth [...]
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Every Monday, I am going to post a birth story from someone that had an empowering birth experience. I hope it will help set the tone for this blog and make women understand why I truly want to help them to feel this way. (If you would like your birth story to be on here, [...]
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