This mama had 2 VBAC’s in the hospital with midwives. She shares both here. Enjoy! These are my birth stories for my 2 VBAC’s, I have three sons and my first was an ‘elective’ caeser due to him being breech. It left me with feelings of failure, which lead to breastfeeding failure and mild PPD. I then researched, researched, researched…
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Let’s Have a Contest!
Contests are always fun and people love winning stuff, right?! Here’s the deal. Leave a comment guessing when mini-BWF will be born including the day and time. Also, guess if we are having a boy or girl and how much s(he) will weigh. The top 3 closest guessers win a donated prize! Some info to help you in your ‘educated’ guess.…
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!!
A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one Without any fear And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong And so happy Christmas For black and for white For yellow and red ones Let’s stop all the fight A very…
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A License to Rape
*I understand there are good doctors and midwives. To those that listen to and respect women, thank you. This blog post is about the many that do not. Rape? A doctor? A midwife? Yes. Birth Rape to be more exact. I remember the first time I read about birth rape. At first it is shocking to see birth and rape…
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16 and Pregnant; Who is the Biggest Idiot?
I’m going to answer that for you. We don’t usually watch a lot of T.V., but the other night I decided to veg out. I was flipping channels and came across the MTV show, 16 and Pregnant. Now, I personally have no issue with the show or teenage girls and their journeys. I will tell you what I do have…
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One Mama, Two Births {Growing From One Birth at a Time}
I waited excitedly for 9 months to share my birth story because I knew that it would prove to people how great home birth really is and that is exactly what it did. When I was pregnant, what I hated the VERY most was reading stories of women who went natural and how “painful” it was because I didn’t want…
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Facing Negative Thoughts and Fears and How to Turn Them Around
This post is raw and personal. I am sharing it because I think that it may help many other pregnant women and that alone is enough of a reason for me. My thoughts are tearing me apart and creating fears. I came to realize this in the last few years. I know what I am doing and I can not…
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22 Favorite Birth Quotes and Affirmations
“Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.” ~ Jane Weideman “When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.” ~Marie Mongan, Hypnobirthing ”If I don’t know my options, I don’t have any.” ~ Diana Korte “There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
“Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.” ~Maureen Hawkins