Today begins a week filled with Birth Stories! As I shared yesterday I love reading birth stories and I want to celebrate yesterday's National Improving Birth Rally with a week of all types of birth stories. Please remember not everyone makes the same choices when it comes to birth. The fact that we have choices is what makes birth beautiful! All birth matters! Please note if … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2013
Happy Labor Day | Improving Birth One Birth Story at a Time
"A woman, as long as she lives, will remember how she was made to feel at her birth." - Anna Verwaal, Doula - Business of Being Born (2008) I know that I will never forget the day either of my sons were born. Each of them so different, and while their birth was the most amazing and joyous moments of my whole life, the delivery process was not at all what I expected it to be. Especially with … [Read more...]
Baby D Monthly Update | 8 Months Old
You may notice that this post is going up 5 days prior to Baby D turning 9 months. While part of that is simply me not finding the time this month between a thousand doctor appointments and the Hubs returning home from deployment, it is also that every time I sat down to write this update I got overwhelmed with emotion and didn't want to continue. After a long few months of looking for … [Read more...]