diblog | September 14, 2011
It was January, 5 days before my due date, when it all started, and I was not really sure what was going on. Remembering the midwife’s message of “it can take a long time” we thought we would head out and go shopping… let nature take its course… that way I could keep moving and […]
Category: 2000s, January babies |
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Tags: drug-free, first child, hospital, long labour, midwife, positive
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 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 to handle the situation. I knew […]
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 22, 2010
Zadyn Pele was due on September 11th, 2009, and didn’t arrive until September 20th, 2009. I had chosen to do a natural homebirth with my two amazing midwives T and C. After Zadyn’s due date came and went I started to feel very antsy. The discomfort of late pregnancy was really getting to me. I couldn’t sleep through the night […]
Category: 2000s, September babies |
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Tags: distress, drug-free, first child, homebirth, long labour, midwife, natural remedies, overdue, post-partum, rectal prolapse, vaginal
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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