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 […]
A Birth Story – Barb and Rob, mama and papa to Flynn Viktor
Barb was a regular at our Prenatal Yoga classes. She and Rob also came to Infant Care class. I’m honored that she’s sharing her birth story with all of us. Happy reading! I woke up in the morning on November 23 (my due date) feeling great with no plans to do Black Friday shopping. Since […]
“I didn’t know what I didn’t know.”
I hear this quite a bit from moms who are pregnant with their second or third child. I hear this from moms who didn’t take a childbirth preparation class. I also hear it from moms who took a childbirth prep class that focused on natural birth only and neglects to cover the reality of hospital birth in […]
Birth Story: Christine’s birth – Connor Michael
Written by Christine, to share with all of you! As requested, however, I just wanted to share a little bit about my birth with you: Connor Michael was born October 3rd 2011 (about 6 days after my due date) at 2:45am. I started having some small contractions the morning of the 2nd. I took about […]
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, […]