Sorry I didn’t post one last week. It’s been one of those weeks. But this story will make up for it!! One woman I know from Twitter refused pitocin FOUR TIMES in labor. This is where my tweet about trusting a woman’s body came from. The story is in three parts. They aren’t long, but [...]
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Today is Fight For the Preemies day hosted by March of Dimes. The US is one of the worst countries in relation to number premature infants and the survival rates of these small blessings. I am not going to get into the topic of why there are so many premature births here, for today is [...]
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This week’s story is one that has been going around the blogsphere like crazy. The mother was dropped the day before her due date for wanting a VBAC. Read the story HERE And some people think OBs are nice and don’t pressure women into anything….
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****Before you start reading, I just want to let you know that I am not writing this post to offend anyone. I am not writing this to say that people made wrong choices or judging anyone in particular. This is just a post about my decisions with two interesting topics, one harder than the other. [...]
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This is a homebirth of a 3rd child. The one thing that amazed me about this birth is the stark contrast between this birth and how she remembers her first two births – particularly the fear that the hospital generated and how it took power away from the woman’s body and wisdom. I loved it, [...]
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Ok, so that is an exaggeration… Maybe. I don’t think there is anything to worry about with this pandemic. Less people have died from this strain of the flu than any other. The only problem is it attacks healthy people, whereas the regular flu attacks those who are sickish. The fear around it has made [...]
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In basically every country but ours, the placenta is believed to have a lot of amazing things for the postpartum woman. In China and Vietnam, the placenta is prepared for consumption by the mother to help recover from childbirth. In Italy, they use part of the placenta to help with lactation. In Hungary, they bite [...]
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On my old post – Infertility Etiquette – there have been some interesting comments lately. The majority of comments are absolutely amazing, but there recently has been an anonymous commenter that has sparked a lot of thought for me and another one of the commenters. “I am sure it is hard for someone who is [...]
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Today’s birth story is a woman that had her second baby at home a couple of months ago. I loved talking to her when she was pregnant about the choices she was making, and now that her baby is here I love reading about her adventures with two kids. So, here is the birth of [...]
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