****** Please do not read if you will be at all triggered. This is the story of our loss two weeks ago, which changed the way I look at loss and at myself. I believe that it needs to be talked about, but this warning is here to let you know that it will go [...]
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My brother and sister in law gave me this poem for Christmas (so I don’t know author or anything, but it’s beautiful) My Midwife The first hands to touch me to break my first fall The first hands to lovingly guide me forwards Before any other, to touch my soft skin The first helping hand [...]
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With everything that has happened with Penn State in the last few days, this post is needed. This post is important, it is necessary, not only to those that are survivors of sexual abuse, but to people and parents that need to know the other side. I received this from Rachelle, and please do be [...]
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Tomorrow is Pregnancy Loss Remembrance Day. It seems to always catch me off guard even though I know every year that it’s coming. Every year, we have had more loss and more heartache, and this year has helped me see that things can be so awful you want to quit, but you keep pushing because [...]
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I often hear women talking about themselves, especially mothers, and saying the words “fat”, “gut”, “muffin top”. It makes me so sad. One thing that has drawn me to helping women is how beautiful they are. Short, tall, big, small. They are all just so gorgeous. And the women I love more than anything are [...]
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I haven’t posted on here in a long time. No posts I write feel right, so they sit in my drafts. I just haven’t been very inspired lately. Since August, I have wondered why I do the work I do. I am surrounded by pregnant women, by births that seem very unlikely I will ever [...]
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TRIGGER WARNING: THIS DEALS WITH THE NICU Ever have one of those days that make you stop and wonder how you have made it through since a certain moment? When one little thing triggers you and you end up doing nothing but reliving events that truly were your own fault that hurt someone you loved? [...]
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***There are pictures of a placenta in this post, do not read if you don’t like them as much as I do *** The midwife I work with and my friend had her baby this week, and I was planning on encapsulating her placenta for her . After a day of an amazing nurse tracking [...]
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Grief can do very strange things to a person. A few weeks ago, I hated my hair, and on a whim, I cut it myself in the bathroom the second I got out of the shower. I went on a cleaning spree in my house, and threw tons of things away, including the positive pregnancy [...]
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Today, I packed up my pump. The bottles, the bags, the tubes. Everything. Since I got back from my mom’s house about two and a half weeks ago, I got lazy. I cut down from 4-5 pumping sessions a day to just one. I was still getting 8-10 ounces in that one session, and knew [...]
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