I’ve been floating on that post-birth cloud that only the miracle of new life brings. Soon enough, or perhaps it is happening already, I will slowly float back to the ground as Holden and I navigate the fourth trimester together. The joy, pain, awe, intensity, shock, and gratitude of Holden’s birth are still so near to me. Andrew and I…
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Hospital VBAC After a Month of Prodromal Labor
I had been having prodromal labor for about month straight so when I noticed contractions starting on Sunday evening, I didn’t really think much of it. I went about my evening like normal, put my toddler to bed, watched a little TV, and around 9pm I decided to head to bed. I’m not one to ever have trouble falling asleep but…
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HBA2C Birth Story; 50 hours of Labor After SROM
My birth journey began 4 years ago with the birth of my first daughter… Evelyn’s Birth (3/23/2008) My husband and I tried for about 7 months, before we got pregnant with our first. We were ecstatic and definitely planned on a natural birth. I thought we had prepared for the birth, I knew I did not want an epidural, but…
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The End of Pregnancy…Keepin’ It Real
Earlier in the week I wrote The End Of Pregnancy…Positive Thoughts. These affirmations have been helping me tremendously as I find peace in the last weeks of a long pregnancy. However, I did mention, that while I’ve been doing good at surrendering to this journey, I am human. So, here is Mrs. BWF keeping it real in between thinking up…
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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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A Fast, Unplanned Unassisted Birth!
I experienced three different days of prodromal labor throughout the month. On Sunday, September 26, 2010, I was awoken by a trickle feeling at about 5:30 am (I had been having a dream about water, too, ha!). I had thought that since I was already five cm dilated, that it might start with my water breaking. I got up and…