Social Media has done so much. You can get information at the click of a button. You can make friends with people on the other side of the world. You can “like” someone or something just by sitting on your couch. You can spread your message in your underwear and people will come read it. [...]
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Waiting Dear Baby, here beneath my heart, I thought that you might come today; The timing seemed just right. But the stars are out And the moon is high And sheepishly I wonder why I try to arrange the plans Of God. For now I know You will not come Until the One who holds [...]
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When I was pregnant with Glade, I knew that head down and breech could be checked for with hands. I knew that those two were important. My mom had a posterior baby (me) and I just thought that was something that happened. Something that couldn’t be checked for, and either didn’t matter, or was just [...]
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Even got to see the heartbeat
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Lately, my biggest vents and angers have been based on what is done to women because that is what is pushed on them, or that is a routine thing. Even just some of the choices made based on what is routine with their provider or they don’t know they can say no. I went to [...]
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I have been in a super ranty birth mood lately (and yes, I am blaming the pregnancy hormones) and was listening to music as I cooked dinner, and this song came on. I just cried. And sang along. And cried some more. And yes, I see and hear birth in everything. Welcome to my world [...]
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I wrote a post on this a long time ago, and mainly got it from websites and books. Now that I have learned much more, I have questions to add I will do a separate post for what to ask a doula, but this one will be about what to ask an OB/Midwife you are [...]
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*** As a warning, this isn’t any of my actual births. This is how I imagine my UBAC going. That is all *** My pregnancy started off a little rough. I hadn’t truly dealt with the fear and uncertainty that my cesarean left behind, plus, I had lost three babies before this pregnancy finally stuck. [...]
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I have never taken a picture of my cesarean scar. I don’t look at it, I pretend it doesn’t exist. It helps that it is barely 4 inches long, and so low that it is covered by hair, and so pale that even if there wasn’t hair you could barely see it. Being pregnant again [...]
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Praying for my February Baby
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