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• Being Mormon, health, labor & delivery

  Prenatal Palliative Care

  04.05.10 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Easter weekend was great. I thought Conference had a whole lotta talks about parenting and motherhood, and let me tell you, it is easy to feel that you are doing your duty as a mother when you are pregnant. That duty is burning up my esophagus as we speak, so “motherhood” = check. Before the [...]

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  The trouble with epidurals

  03.23.10 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  *for me. Just as each woman and birth differ, so do a woman’s reasons for choosing to prepare for birth the way she does. These are mine. The trouble with epidurals is not that they take away pain — that is the good thing about epidurals. Choosing pain over pleasure is a sign of genetic [...]

• labor & delivery, pregnancy

  A Woman’s Prerogative (an Evolution of Birthing Attitudes)

  03.15.10 | Permalink | 25 Comments

  Several people have asked why I am suddenly interested in natural childbirth after ten years and three labors that, while medicated and managed, turned out just fine. Actually, my mother specifically told my brother not to ask me about my birthing plans, but that could have been because we were in the middle of a [...]

• explaining the inexplainable, labor & delivery

  The burning fervor of the recently converted

  03.04.10 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  I want to start off saying that if I’ve offended you by discussing my thoughts on birthing (by having thoughts that differ from yours), I am sorry. Though I feel that it matters, immensely, for me to learn and prepare for my final birth (oh yes, this will be my final birth), and though I [...]

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  Does it matter how you give birth?

  03.02.10 | Permalink | 50 Comments

  I just finished my second birth book and stomped downstairs to inform Dick that we’ll be needing to hire a doula, someone who can support me and advocate for my desires in childbirth. Dick says we don’t have the money for that (I know we don’t), so I say he can do it, but he’ll [...]

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  An Update and Some Thoughts (catchy, huh?)

  01.24.10 | Permalink | 49 Comments

  Several weeks ago I went to my first prenatal visit. I told the doctor I was either seven or eleven weeks along, and we did an ultrasound to get a better idea of just how unreliable my memory is. It was early morning, I was drinking water like mad so I could give a sample [...]

• blogging, breastfeeding, labor & delivery, motherhood

  Two looks at how we become mothers

  05.15.07 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  I read an article yesterday about a couple adopting a daughter from China. I’ll summarize here, but I encourage you to read the whole thing if you’re interested. A couple spent two years trying to conceive and then decided to adopt from China. The logistics took over a year to arrange, and when they arrived [...]

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