diblog | November 25, 2010
I didn’t really have concrete expectations before I gave birth. My idea of what a birth would be like was glorified. As a nurse, I had seen two births that were not at all scary: one was a smooth birth with epidural, and it looked all beautiful and happy, just like you would hope it [...]
diblog | September 8, 2010
Erica’s Birth, July 1985
Hard to believe it was 25 years ago that my first daughter was born. Some memories will come and go, others fade with time, but birth memories stay with you forever!
Pregnancy was always something I dreamed of and looked forward to, even as a little girl. And let me be clear, I [...]
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 [...]
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 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 pregnancy books [...]
