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Pregnancy and Birth

Husbands and Home Birth: A Call for Women to Educate Men

February 29, 2012

Husbands tend to initially feel uncomfortable with the thought of home birth. Instead of simply submitting, women need to educate their husbands on the safety of home birth. If there is only one realm in which women ought to have authority, it’s in the realm of childbirth.

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The Gift of Waiting

December 31, 2011

With every pregnancy announcement, I have to admit I felt a little twinge of something like envy. How can everyone else be so darn fertile? The truth is, though, I think those two years of waiting were a gift. In many ways, I recognize that waiting gave me something that these other women don’t have. Here is a list of just a few of the blessings that came with having to wait.

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Motherhood and Sexuality. Or, How Motherhood Has Changed Everything

December 6, 2011

Sex is different now that I’m a mother. Not just in the way that sex feels, because of what my body has gone through, though that too. It’s not that my body has merely changed; it’s that it is a wholly new and different thing.

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Why Birthing at Home Rocked

September 12, 2011

Yesterday I shared my birth story. A few weeks ago I explained why I’d chosen a home birth. I can’t possibly know whether choosing to give birth at home helped to make it as great as it was. My labour might have been just as quick and easy in a hospital — I’ll never know [...]

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My Home Birth Story

September 12, 2011

I know I know; it’s been weeks already since the event. I intended to post a short series on home birth like a century ago, but time has a way of getting away from you when you have a newborn in the house. So here it is now. Tomorrow (tomorrow!) I have one more post [...]

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The Why’s of Home Birth

September 1, 2011

I wrote this about a week before I actually gave birth. I intended to post it a long time ago, but because Lydia arrived a little earlier than expected it got pushed back. Next on the blog, I want to discuss home birth from my actual experience. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve done a ton [...]

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Welcome Baby Lydia

August 19, 2011

On Wednesday, August 16th at 6:35 a.m. Lydia Calliope decided to make her entrance into the Big Wide World a week before we were expecting her.

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Gardening and (In)fertility

April 18, 2011

The other day my mom called to talk about gardening. Ten minutes into the conversation, Ben came rushing into the room to see what was wrong because I was crying so hard. No, my mom didn’t say anything mean or hurtful. Gardening became an emotional issue for me last year. It was my second summer [...]

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Pregnancy Fears and Non-Fears

March 31, 2011

I’ve discovered that when you become pregnant, there is a whole host of people waiting to frighten you. There are lists and lists of things that you’re told you ought to be afraid of. I’ve also discovered that with many things, the reason folks want you to be afraid is because they have some kind [...]

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Ultrasound

February 21, 2011

Few experiences are as surreal and disconcerting as seeing a humanoid creature casually loitering in your abdomen, especially when you can’t feel any of it. The experience treads a fine line between rapturous and downright creepy. (Imagine this creature, pictured above, silently moving around inside of you. Goodness. It would give me the willies if [...]

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