diblog | May 10, 2010
Here is my first birth story. It is as I wrote it at the time. I know it’s absurdly long – and you already know there’s a baby at the end, so I’ll understand if you don’t read the whole thing. 😉 But hey, the labour was absurdly long, so there you go. And I […]
Category: 2000s, June babies |
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Tags: assisted, epidural, episiotomy, first child, hospital, induction, long labour, midwife, narcotics, overdue, vaginal
diblog | May 2, 2010
Thank you for being here! I hope you find what you came for. Here is the story behind MotherGather. When I was first pregnant, I asked practically every mother I could find to tell me her birth stories. I wanted to hear what birth is really like, not the hypothetical situations you read about in […]
Category: Uncategorized |
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Tags: adoption, assisted, back labour, breech, c-section, distress, doula, drug-free, dystocia, emergency, epidural, episiotomy, first child, fourth child, high-risk, homebirth, hospital, induction, long labour, midwife, narcotics, natural remedies, nitrous oxide, older mothers, overdue, poetry, premature, rectal prolapse, second child, short labour, siblings, single mothers, stillbirth, tearing, third child, transfusion, twins/multiples, uterine prolapse, vaginal, VBAC, younger mothers
