diblog | February 8, 2013
I guess the best place to start is the day of your birth. I wish I remembered more, but somehow I have been left with a hazy memory, a cloudy smear of the day that forever changed my life. I knew you would be born this day, November 7th 2012. It was a Wednesday, exactly […]
Category: 2010s, November babies |
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Tags: breech, c-section, down syndrome, epidural, hospital, midwife, second child, stillbirth
diblog | May 15, 2012
We started trying to have a baby in October 2003. By July 2004, my doctor was concerned and sent us for testing at a reproductive endocrinologist (RE). The appointment was on our wedding anniversary. “You will never have a child naturally.” “There is a 99.99999% chance that you will never conceive a child on your […]
Category: 2000s, December babies |
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Tags: back labour, epidural, first child, hospital, induction, infertility, vaginal
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 […]
Category: 2000s, January babies |
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Tags: breech, c-section, emergency, epidural, first child, hospital, midwife
diblog | July 11, 2010
It was the summer of 1974. I was 24 years old, married for one year. I was pregnant for the second time, but this was going to be my baby to keep. My pregnancy was fairly uneventful. The only craving I had was for fried shrimp at 2 in the morning. The closest I could […]
Category: 1970s, July babies |
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Tags: back labour, epidural, hospital, long labour, overdue, second child
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 […]
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