I am one of those people who absolutely loves being pregnant. While I don’t love the sciatica, leg cramps, morning sickness, or fatigue, I love the feeling of inner strength and wisdom that comes with pregnancy. I am constantly in awe with my body’s ability to grow a baby. To sustain another life for nine READ MORE
Tag: Natural Childbirth
10 Actions to Have an Empowered Birth
I have been thinking about pregnancy and birth a lot lately because I have so many good friends who are pregnant right now. As they have asked me about my birth experience and how I prepared myself for my natural birth with Peter, it has caused me to reflect a lot on my experience and READ MORE
Resources for a Natural Childbirth
This post contains affiliate links, which means that I may earn a small commission if you click through links and make a purchase, at no extra cost to you. I only promote products that I wholeheartedly recommend! Last week I shared the story of our beautiful natural birth experience. I got such wonderful feedback from READ MORE
Peter’s Birth Story
I’m glad I’m finally getting to write about Peter’s birth! I have thought a lot about the experience over the last week and a half since he was born, and I am so grateful for the beautiful experience we had. I know there are so many conflicting perspectives on the birth process. While reading Marie READ MORE
Baby Peter is a week old!
Baby Peter was finally born on July 8! Stay tuned for our birth story, but as he’s officially a week old, I wanted to share some details of this first week with him. In this past week we have fallen in love with this little angel. He is the sweetest thing in the whole world, READ MORE
Our Hypnobirthing Experience – Weeks 3 and 4 – Giving the Birth Partner a Role in the Delivery Room
Last night we completed our final class in the hypnobirthing series! I’m so grateful Carter was supportive enough to come to the three hour classes with me over the past four weeks. After finishing his 10 hour work shift, he’d head straight to our class on birthing and hypnosis… poor guy! I don’t blame him READ MORE
Our Hypnobirthing Experience- week 2
Baby keeps stretching and kicking inside my belly. I swear he is doing somersaults sometimes! Looks like we may have a little gymnast in the making. 😉 With our birth day beginning to approach, more and more of my time is filled with preparing for the birth of our baby. Sorting through baby clothes, subscribing READ MORE
Our Hypnobirthing experience- Week 1
This week we started a hypnobirthing class! After starting to read Marie Mongan’s book on hypnobirthing, I was so inspired by her perspective on childbirth. Having a positive birth experience is so important to me, and I know I need to prepare for the experience if it is going to be so. It seems that READ MORE