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 [...]
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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 [...]
This is a guest post by Monkula. My eldest daughter was born via cesarean in 2007. At the time I didn’t have too many opinions on babies and birth; just some hand-me-down ideas from friends and co-workers about how things could, and were supposed to, go. You go to the hospital. You have the baby. [...]
Our son, Jaren, was born on Friday 2/22/2013 at 9:51 pm via an unmedicated, vaginal delivery. 7 pounds 14 ounces | 20 inches long (only 1 oz less than Noelle, and half an inch taller) Mr. Heels and I had been waiting impatiently that entire week because my bloody show had passed a few days [...]
During the TTC process, and before I was even pregnant, I knew one thing for certain: I wanted a natural birth. I never aspired for a home birth or anything outside the hospital setting, but I knew that an epidural was not for me. Not because I thought I had a super-human pain tolerance or [...]
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 [...]
We planned a home birth and my whole family secretly thought that I was crazy. My sister warned me that the labor pains would be hard to get through without an epidural. My mother said the same thing and thought her baby had no idea what was ahead. They were both right, but 11 days [...]
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