Your name: Constanza Partner’s name: Greg Babies birthdates: My first boy May 9 2011, my second February 21 2013 1. What is the best part of being a mom? That is a very hard question to answer! There are so many things I could think of, like the unconditional love in the eyes of your baby as […]
Day 1 – Lamaze Innovative Learning Forum 2012 – Redux
I’ve broken up this post into three parts. There’s a lot of information and a lot that happened at the conference this year. Here’s Part 1 for you! 2012 was the year of country music. We were in Nashville, TN for this year’s conference. The conference was shorter by a full day due to the […]
Perfection vs. Purpose OR the Birth Experience vs. Giving Birth
To interrupt the series on “Integrating Yoga and Lamaze” for a moment… I’ve had something nagging at me for a while… I keep hearing the same theme from mothers who didn’t have the natural birth they wanted; the birth they were told they were *supposed* to have. They feel like failures because their “birth experience” […]
Elaine’s Birth Story – My VBAC
Elaine Margaret’s Birth Story: 3/28/09 – 3/29/09 7 lbs, 11 oz; 19 3/4”; 3/29/09, 9:59 AM I went to see Ina May Gaskin today (3/28). She is so real, honest, direct, doesn’t mince words and talks about poop! Can’t get much better. I am really glad I went to see her speak. She put her […]
Owen’s birth story – My C-section
As promised, here’s birth story #1. This is how I wrote it, in the week after his birth. It’s interesting reading it with my childbirth educator eyes. I’ll comment on the birth story at the end of it. Looks like today is the day! April 16, 2005 My water broke at 8:30 this morning. So, […]