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This story was originally written in March 2016. March 1  Both Mr. Cookie and I were relieved to have made it to March. We didn’t want a leap year baby and had our hearts set on March and a slightly more spring time birth. I started losing my mucous plug and got tentatively excited since that is […]

This story was originally written in August 2014. Sunday July 20th, 2014 started off like a normal day. We went to a church we’d been checking out at the time and everyone made comments about how I looked very close to giving birth. In the back of my mind I was thinking it was going to be […]

Little Bug was born in June, 2015 at 5:05 am. This is his flashback birth story. The day I gave birth I was having a lot of contractions, but they weren’t particularly painful — just kind of uncomfortable. I was also losing large chunks of my plug throughout the day. I went about my business and […]

I gave birth to LeLe on January 15th, 2014.  This is a flashback to her birth story. On Monday January 13th, my standard weekly appointment was canceled and rescheduled for Tuesday the 14th. I had a bit of a breakdown as I was tired of being pregnant, and any small thing was setting me off […]

There are a few things a laboring woman never wants to hear, and high atop that list is her anesthesiologist saying: “Wow, I’ve never seen that before!” But alas there I was, six or seven centimeters dilated, in full labor, hunched over the bed and waiting for the epidural to do its magic, when my anesthesiologist […]

Now that Baby Pizza is over three months old, I’ve had some more time to reflect on the earlier days. It’s hard for me to not compare my experiences with both kids, but I guess it’s only natural for that to happen. Every birth story is different so I thought I would share the birth […]

When I was discharged from midwife care after having Little Oats, they jokingly told me that the next time I got pregnant, I should call them before I called my husband. That was their way of saying that midwife care, especially in my small city, books up FAST – as soon as there was a […]