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I’m not sure I have talked about it much, but this time around I am planning on going drug-free for my childbirth experience. With my first pregnancy, I had a birth plan that was hopeful about avoiding an epidural, but I ended up getting one anyway. I think it was due to a combination of […]

I’m usually a minimalist packer for trips but I brought a huge duffel bag and giant birth ball to the hospital for baby Jujube’s birth – a.k.a. the most epic trip I’ll ever take in my life! All births are unique and precious and nothing ever goes as planned, but for anyone trying to take […]

I wrote this checklist of what to pack in your hospital bag 6 weeks before Olive’s due date, but because she was born 5 weeks early I never got a chance to pack one. Now that I’ve had two kids with two different types of births, I thought I’d share what I wish I had […]

When I packed a hospital bag the first time around, I felt like I was headed away for a week. I packed everything that was on every ‘suggested’ list I could find online, and probably more. However, since I gave birth with midwives, my maximum hospital stay was twelve hours; had I not gotten an […]

I thought I was prepared this time around for my postpartum stay at the hospital. Last time around I packed everything but the kitchen sink, and while it was nice to have anything and everything I needed, I really didn’t use a whole lot. For round two, I tried to pack less—way less, but I […]

Oh, hospital bags. They’re one of those things I refused to allow myself to think about until about my 8th month of pregnancy, then I turned into a crazy person researching what in the world I should pack. And, of course, right after coming home with Jackson I promptly forgot about it and haven’t put […]

The number one thing on my to-do list once I go into labor (if I’m not induced this time, of course), is figuring out what to do with little Bunny. Without family nearby, I’ve asked several people if they wouldn’t mind being on stand-by to watch her—everyone from a neighbor who can come over in […]