Over a year ago I gave birth to my second baby at home.  Almost 3 years ago I gave birth to my first baby in a hospital.  Both experiences were valuable and the results were phenomenal because I have two amazing sons. Lately I have been going over each birth and the anticipation leading up [...]

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{Email subscribers, click over to view the video} It is surreal to be saying that my youngest son Everett is turning one year old today.  He was born at 6:44 am in the water, at home, in my bedroom, after only 4 hours and 45 minutes of labor. {Everett’s Homebirth Story and Video}  He came [...]

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Right before bed last night I saw a Facebook post from my friend, and fellow Birth Lover, Ginni.  She linked to a Live Homebirth in progress.  Because the birth world is rather small I realized it happened to be that of Talina.  I follow her on Twitter and have read her blog on occasion.  I [...]

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The silver lining to an otherwise gloomy day came to me at a SuperCuts. I know, I’m as surprised as you are about that one. I don’t dare get my hair cut in any mass chain cuttery with the actual name “Cut” in it, but I will take my son there to get a “3″ [...]

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My husband was a tough nut to crack when it came to homebirth. Once I knew I wanted to have our second son at home and I grew the balls to tell him- it wasn’t pretty. After weeks of discussion he hesitantly agreed to meet with a midwife, if only to shut me up. The [...]

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Ina May Gaskin, America’s Leading Midwife, has a new book out this month titled Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta. And I am in tears from just finishing it. I am sure many of my reader’s are familiar with Ina May and her life’s work of not only providing phenomal midwifery services to women at The [...]

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I mentioned briefly in a recent post on my views that Nitrous Oxide would be a wonderful option for women who wanted some pain relief during labor but didn’t want an epidural.  Good news! It is making a comeback in the US! In the US there are only 2 hospitals that currently offer Nitrous Oxide [...]

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I am not a “controversial” blogger. In fact, when writing out my posts I am constantly asking myself “Will this offend someone?  Can this be taken the wrong way?” And so on.  Yet, just the topics I write about are controversial in themselves so I do get the upset mother commenting every once in a [...]

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I let another baby show into my life today.  It snuck up on me and I missed the premiere but thankfully Jezebel.com reminded me.  I set off to DVR the next showing.  Luckily, I knew the network, Lifetime, wouldn’t hold out on me too long before it re-aired the premiere.  I flipped through a day’s [...]

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Because everyone I know online is pregnant I have been hearing a lot about their labors.  Some were hospital births, some were at home, and many were even VBACs.  Luckily, most of my friends are pretty informed about pregnancy, labor, and delivery.  This meant that most of them waited for the baby to come when [...]

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