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Tag: birth

Three Years Later: Is the Pandemic Forever a Part of Us?

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Three years.  It’s been three years since we hoarded toilet paper, sanitized groceries, made masks from scraps of cloth, and stayed inside to stay safe. One...

I Don’t Like Being the Pregnant Friend

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This is my third pregnancy and if there is anything I've learned so far is that I despise being the pregnant friend. During my...

My Cerclage Success Story

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Like many expecting new moms, I embraced the resources we now have - endless apps to track week by week, Instagram accounts dedicated to...

Every Birth Story is Powerful

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There I was, standing with a small group of women, sharing birth stories with a soon-to-be first-time mom, watching her face go from complete...

The Mom Behind the Newborn

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Behind every adorable, squishy, prized newborn is a woman learning how to tackle her new role of Mom. Don't forget about her. I have a...

My Life as a Birth Worker

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“However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.”...

A Rocky Recovery: My Traumatic Birth Recovery

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Welcome to the word vomit version of my most recent birth story, well, more birth recovery. Buckle up. We all envision that perfect, blissful,...

A Decade of Trying

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We are not trying anymore. For ten years, my body has been trying to create a miracle. When we first started, we were decidedly...

4 Reasons Why You Should Wait to Find Out Your Baby’s...

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I always knew that I didn't want to know the gender of my future babies. It truly is one of the purest joys in...

Our Preemie’s Birth Story | 26 Weeks

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To preface this, my husband, James and I got married in May of 2015. We had our first child, Graham, in June of 2017....

An Emergency C-Section Was My Greatest Fear.

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People say that no two births are the same. And in my case, it's been very true. Thirteen years ago, my first baby was monitored...

When It Takes a Village: Post-Partum Love

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I’ve never been a big believer in the whole “it takes a village” concept. Maybe it’s because I was a very republican high school...

We Aren’t Supposed to Talk About This

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A fellow blogger recently posted a meme: "Whatever you're most scared to write about...write that." I saw that and thought, wow, how appropriate: It reinforced...

My Son is 1 in 110: Congential Heart Defect Awareness Week

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February 7th-14th is Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. 1 in 110 babies are born with a heart defect and I didn’t realize this until...