When I found out I was pregnant with my third child, I was so excited! My daughter had been a planned birth center birth, turned C-Section. I was so elated when I was able to have my homebirth VBAC with my first son less than 2 years after that. I planned on having another easy peasy homebirth … [Read more...] about The Complicated Homebirth VBAC of My Second Son
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The Natural Birth of My 11 Pound VBAC Baby, Part 2
The labor of my natural birth with my fifth child wasn't that long, but I feel like there was so much to his birth story! It's not every day that someone you know has an 11 pound baby, let alone via a natural VBAC birth, right? Imagine how weird it is that it happened to me. I'm still in … [Read more...] about The Natural Birth of My 11 Pound VBAC Baby, Part 2
The Natural Birth of My 11 Pound VBAC Baby, Part 1
I apologize that this is long overdue, but the past 2.5 weeks have gone by in a flash. I've had few opportunities to type with both hands, let alone upload the videos and pictures that I wanted to put on here to do this story justice. My sweet little guy prefers to be held basically all of the time, … [Read more...] about The Natural Birth of My 11 Pound VBAC Baby, Part 1
Birth Story of Charlie Andrew (including some vlogs!)
Charlie is my 4th baby. His birth was great because I had so much anxiety over the labor and delivery... as you will see, things worked out just the way they needed to! My past births have been: 1st birth: 12 days after due date, 42 hour long labor with water broken the whole time, 3.5 hours of … [Read more...] about Birth Story of Charlie Andrew (including some vlogs!)
Happy birthday to me and to my PRECIOUS son!!!
Well, I'm writing this on the evening of the 23rd. Tomorrow (January 24th) will be my birthday and also my amazing son's birthday! Happy 4th birthday, Michael!! Yes, my son was born on my 23rd birthday. :) He was due on January 25th, but apparently thought it would be cool to just become my … [Read more...] about Happy birthday to me and to my PRECIOUS son!!!