After a year of trying to conceive without success I saw a doctor and was diagnosed with PCOS. A year later I conceived with our first round of fertility injections and IUI. We were beyond excited…we ordered a crib the same day I got the call about my blood test! Sadly, I miscarried at 6 weeks. But our little one…
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An Empowering and Healing Cesarean Section
My first pregnancy was one that was mostly good, but the bad was very bad. I had extremely bad swelling. So bad I thought my skin would split open by the end of my workday. And the carpal tunnel was sheer misery. At eight months pregnant, the beginning of October 2008, I had cortisone shots in my hands to make…
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VBA2C becomes an Amazing Family Centered Cesarean
Hi ladies of BWF, Thank you so much for all the wonderful work you do and the inspiration and courage you bring to all the pregnant mommas out there. I am a birth doula and a birth photographer in New Jersey and I have been meaning to email you a few times. But recently I have attended an extraordinary birth…