Sep 7, 2016 | Ask A, Motherhood
It’s been almost a year and a half since Issa was born, but I still have conversations on a regular basis about our experience with home birth, midwives, doulas, the whole bit. The questions are almost always coming from a place of sheer curiosity. It’s as...
Apr 10, 2015 | Family, Motherhood
When we left off in Part One (read that here if you haven’t already), I was just starting to feel some light contractions on the evening of March 14th after an appointment with my midwife. We headed home and settled into our usual routine of dinner and board...
Apr 3, 2015 | Maternity, Motherhood
{The last photo of me pregnant, right after our walk trying to send myself into labor on March 14th. Read on to find out if it worked! 🙂 } Well, it took me over two years to write Cora’s birth story (read that here and here if you haven’t already), so...
Feb 13, 2015 | Bump Updates
38 Weeks Total weight gain/loss? 197. Yup. Maternity clothes? Finally resorted to wearing the hub’s shorts and shirts to bed now, but I’m managing in my own clothes during the day. 🙂 Stretch marks? Just a few. Sleep? Still having bouts of...
Oct 22, 2014 | Maternity, Motherhood, San Antonio
If you’ve read Cora’s birth story (Part One and Part Two), you know that she was born in a birth center. If that’s an unfamiliar term to you, it’s essentially a happy-medium between a home birth and a hospital birth. We had a midwife, I was...
