I wanted to share my story of how I came to feeling like a new mom after having five children, yes I did say five. Over the last 12 years I have been pregnant five times. I have four boys and one girl. All my boy’s pregnancy were hospital births attended by an OBGYN. All my boys pregnancy I gained a lot of weight, was huge, they were all big babies. My first son was 8.14, my second was 8.6,…
Every birth is different. That is a phrase I must have heard about a hundred times while I was pregnant with my baby boy. I thought that since I had gone thru one birth, I should know what to expect with the second. It may be longer or shorter in length but I would be prepared for anything. I could not have been more wrong. My birth with Elias was such a contrast to my first with Alondra. I tried,…
We were thrilled as ever to discover we were pregnant for the third time around. Since our first pregnancy I have grown all the more in my appreciation and love for family and the beauty of raising children. This pregnancy was a little different than with my previous ones. It was the first time I had issues with round ligament pain which stretched down in my pelvis that made walking difficult. I also had a few days of light spotting…
It was a few months after our daughter, Fiddle turned 1 year that my husband Jeremiah and I became pregnant with our second. For Fiddle’s birth we had such a wonderful experience at home that any uncertainty we might have had before became non-existent now. So when both pregnancy tests confirmed that I was having a baby and not some “stomach virus” we gratefully started our baby journey once again. This time I felt even more prepared since I had…
Who knew after what seemed like an intense day of “practice” that I’d actually be having the baby? Certainly not myself. I kept telling myself not to overreact having heard the stories of women going to the hospital a few times and being in false labor. Around 11 pm I started having pretty intense contractions that I couldn’t quite ignore, but I didn’t want to overreact either. We went to bed around midnight and the contractions were still pretty regular.…
I did it! She is here and two weeks early to boot! I was so impatient and miserable and cranky. I wanted this pregnancy to be over and now looking back it seems to have flown by. Here is Ivy’s birth story. I wrote this hours after her birth while everything was still fresh. I woke up at 3:39 a.m. because I was uncomfortable. As I was laying there I felt a very strange feeling. It was like a plop…
Born to Laura and John ~ 7 lbs. 3 ozs I woke up in a really grumpy mood on Thursday. My due date was supposed to be Wed. and I was sure I would not go past. In fact I expected to go two weeks earlier like with my other children but here I was, a day past my due date and mad at everyone! I woke at 5am and couldn’t sleep but not because of contractions. I was restless…
The road to Beth and her apprentices was a long one. This was my second pregnancy and had had a rather unsatisfying pregnancy and birth of my first child. With my first child I saw an obgyn. Midwifery wasn’t big in Las Vegas Nevada. So I had no clue it even existed. The care I received was brief and she wasn’t really concerned about me just my baby. Her office was always packed and it seemed like she didn’t have…
As I sit and begin to write our story, I am still amazed that it is actually ours. I have to pinch myself sometimes because the birth of our third baby, truly was a dream. I had always thought that delivering my babies would be a breeze, so when I had my first two children I was shocked to experience everything except what I imagined. After an extremely long labor in the hospital my first daughter, Moriah, was born. The…
It was March 2010…We were so excited to find out that we were pregnant with our second child due in November… it was quite a surprise! Our first son, Alessandro was gently brought into this world with the help of the loving hands of Beth Overton, our midwife, in January 2006, so of course, she was the first person we called when our pregnancy test came back positive this time! We started our monthly visits, which are always so great,…