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As Baby Owl grows and I feel her every little hiccup and squirm, I’m reminded of just how close I am to meeting her face-to-face. And as the moment of her grand entrance draws nearer and nearer, I find myself getting more and more scared. Of so many things. But especially labor. Yes, we’re planning to [...]

scheduled c-section for breech baby I wouldn’t change anything about the birth. My only qualm was the number of visitors we had on Saturday (I had Chloe on Friday). My husband had gone home to feed our cats and shower. I don’t remember him being gone for too long, but it felt like as soon [...]

As you know, Mr. Popcorn and I had a home birth. What you don’t know is that we didn’t attend a birthing class until our 37th week and Baby Popcorn came on the 38th. Where we lacked in birthing class knowledge, I made up in having read a lot of books and online content. Leading [...]

Part 1 The Epidural The placement was quick, but definitely hurt a lot more than I remembered. I said “ow!” several times as I felt pressure along one side of my spine, and stinging and numbness. During the placement, the resident anesthesiologist said at one point that they had “inadvertently” gone past the epidural space [...]

My apologies for being so absent lately… I wish I could place primary blame on the new life as mom of two, but it’s actually because our computer crashed! We didn’t lose our pictures but we have spent quite a bit of time setting up a good backup system because we hadn’t set one up [...]

I’m a huge planner and slightly type A when it comes to scheduling and making plans, so the end of a pregnancy when you’re waiting for the baby to arrive is like torture to me. In the last few weeks before my due date with Wagon Jr., I gained a good amount of my extra [...]

Olive will be a week old tomorrow, and based on what other moms told me about their vaginal birth recoveries, I expected to be feeling pretty good by now.  Although I don’t regret having a VBAC, I think this recovery was actually way more difficult than my c-section recovery.  Of course I have to factor [...]