March 10, 2011 It’s the middle of the night. I’m laying awake, thinking of how there will be three of us sleeping here soon. I can’t lay still. I’m feeling different, off, restless. Every once in a while, I’m compelled to get up on all fours and rock back and forth. I don’t think a whole lot of it. I’m…
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Normalizing Birth One Baby At a Time: An Unassisted Birth Story
Jackson Timothy Lee Born October 11th at 11:30pm. 7lbs, 20 inches Our second unassisted birth was nothing like our first, but was wonderful just the same. The first was my husband and I, candle-light, music, thunderstorm and then Jasmine; all beautiful and perfect. Now, five years later (literally the same due date) I wanted to have big sister included, to…
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Preparing for Unassisted Childbirth
I’m going to start this post off with saying that I do not tell women to birth unassisted. I do not ‘promote it’ or recommend it as it’s not for most women. It is a very personal decision and one both mother and father need to educate themselves on, be united on and take responsibility for. Once in a while,…
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An Open Discussion: Unassisted Childbirth
During the comment discussions on Birth Without Fear’s blog post, A License to Rape, unassisted birth came up and a conversation started. I stopped the discussion for a few reasons. The most important being that it was taking away from the importance of the topic…birth rape. I want to offer a place for a respectable conversation about unassisted pregnancy and childbirth…