diblog | January 4, 2012
Dear Zack,
Here is the story of your birth.
Peter (Daddy) and Tasha (Mommy) were interested in having a baby, but Mommy lost her period for a year due to a medication she was on, so she was really worried about infertility – she didn’t know what had happened at first. They kept waiting for it come [...]
Category: 2000s, February babies |
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Tags: drug-free, first child, hospital, midwife, natural remedies, vaginal
diblog | May 26, 2010
In the summer of 1971 I was 21. I discovered that I was pregnant. I was single and had just finished my second year of teaching. I was visiting my step-brother and his wife in Niagara Falls when I found out.
I knew right away how I was going [...]
Category: 1970s, February babies |
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Tags: adoption, episiotomy, first child, hospital, long labour, nitrous oxide, single mothers, vaginal, younger mothers
diblog | May 13, 2010
Like many things to do with pregnancy, it’s odd how much women’s stories can help other women more than any of the books out there. I learned that labour doesn’t necessarily happen like in the books – I was four centimetres dilated (beginning of active labour, right books?), but having 2-minute contractions every 2.5 minutes [...]
Category: 2000s, February babies |
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Tags: back labour, c-section, distress, emergency, first child, general anesthetic, hospital, midwife