Let me start by saying I have planned an all natural childbirth (no pain medications) from the beginning, and lied to anyone who asked if I was planning all natural. We hired a doula around 16 weeks pregnant and sat in several hours of childbirth classes. We felt prepared. On Thursday, June 9th, we (David and I) went to the Albertville Farmers…
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The Birth Story of Violet Marie – Part 2
*This is the second part of Violet Marie’s birth story. To read Part One, click here. The Birth! Neil came into the bathroom to check me at 3:00pm and sat beside me while I had five back to back contractions then transitioned and puked all over myself and lost my mucous plug. They got me out of the tub and…
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The Birth Story of Violet Marie – Part 1
Brace yourself… It’s a long read! I hope you enjoy it, I share every detail I can recall of my labour and delivery from my own perspective Pregnancy I had a pretty unconventional pregnancy in the sense that I didn’t participate in any regular prenatal care. I didn’t have a doctor or obstetrician, I didn’t have ultrasounds, no diabetes test,…
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Blissful, Nearly Unattended Home Birth
I had been having false starts for about a week. Light contractions every night that went away when I slept, and didn’t start up again until the next night. Saturday I was 40 weeks 1 day. My midwife stripped my membranes after checking me to find I was 2 cm, long and thick, but somehow at a PLUS 2 station (yes,…
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The Making of a Confident Woman and Mother
All I wanted was to bring my first son into the world by a natural home birth. As the months turned into weeks, and then days, I was pumped. I was so sure I could do this. When the rubber met the road and those first hard contractions came, I got scared. I really didn’t think I could continue on.…
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I Have Never Had Such Respect For My Uterus
We decided to wait to find out the sex of our second baby, our first being a girl. I was due on the 17th of December and I had been having prodromal labor for a few days. This continued off and on until the night of the 19th when I once again started getting contractions. They continued overnight, although very…
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Breast is Normal, Fed is Best
I’m not censoring myself. When my oldest was a year old, a friend told me that my baby and I couldn’t be as bonded as her and her baby because we bottle fed and she breastfed. I wasn’t offended, I was confused. I had a very deep bond with my baby and was madly in love her, so how could…
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Is Birth Tourism in Canada a Real Problem?
Every presidential election cycle in the United States often elicits various celebrities, public figures, and others vowing to migrate north to Canada if candidate XYZ becomes president. However, some people actually do make their way to Canada. Not because of a new desire to expatriate, or seek political asylum, but to gain anchor citizenship for their soon-to-be newborn babies. The subject…
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Raw, Beautiful, Amazing Home Water Birth!
This post is about birth and I am sharing it for all my friends who have babies or want to have babies and for their husbands who aren’t sure how to support their wife during pregnancy. One day I will become a midwife because I want to help moms and dads bring their babies into the world just like I…