This post is reblogged from a former post in 2011. Several years ago a pregnant mom told me that she was in love with her midwife. I don’t mean that she was using the term loosely to describe that she was just “the bees knees”. She was serious, people. Very, deeply serious.
Category: Birth and Pregnancy
Birth Announcement Etiquette- BAN the Birth “Firsts”
I have been a birth doula for almost 7 years now and have attended around 250 births. I signed up to support women and their families through one of the most amazing experiences of a lifetime and to hold them up with my own body and soul through their first
Hello, My Name Is…
How do I start… No, how do I pick back up. What do I pick back up? That’s the problem with juggling hats, you see. I have so many and I love them all. I hold them close, I spin them in the air. I store them in the closet.
The Opposite of Failure- Mec Happens- Part 2 of Lil Bit's Birth Story
I had my first three little ones in 3.5 years. Memories are like smoke and wind chimes, hard to define anything from those few years really. Any mama who has done the same can attest to the truth in this. Mostly a happy colorful blur, full of life and vibrancy,
The Opposite of Failure- Part 1 of Lil Bit's Birth Story
I didn’t mean for it to be like this. Me, sitting at the computer five years later trying to pull some semblance of ordered memories out from this befuddled brain. It isn’t that I was avoiding the truth. It wasn’t about hiding it either, because I’ve told the story many