When I first got pregnant, I remember my mother sending me tons of books, as well as perusing the pregnancy aisle at the library and bookstore. There is a plethora of labor books out there, but not all of them support natural birth, especially home birth. Thankfully, my midwives … [Read more...]
Labor of Love: Home Birth is a Choice that the AMA Wants to Outlaw
Editor's note: This guest post comes to us from Amy Gates. Amy writes about attachment parenting, activism, green living and photography at Crunchy Domestic Goddess. Earlier in the week, she shared Julian's birth story. Whether or not you've had a home birth or would choose … [Read more...]
Labor of Love: All Things in Their Own "Sweet" Time
The birth of our second daughter was a lesson in patience, teaching me the lesson that all things in life happen in their in their own good time. And that we, for the most part, have little control over many facets in our lives. Waiting, relaxing, and letting things happen … [Read more...]
Labor Of Love: Scheduled Induction and An Epidural Love
It's probably going against the grain to be talking about pain medication in a natural parenting blog, and one of the few writers this week that would probably advocate non-natural childbirth; but I always knew that epidural was going to be my drug of choice when the time came to … [Read more...]
Labor of Love: Positive Natural Birthing Experience After Posterior Labor
I was fortunate to have an amazing natural birth experience with my first-born, despite being stuck in a tiny fairly rural hospital in Mississippi. My Canadian OB-GYN was the only one in town who would let me labor without an IV, and while she arrived to catch the baby leaving me … [Read more...]
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