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labor & delivery
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childbirth, labor & delivery, motherhood, pregnancy
Reviewing Molly’s birth, a natural childbirth testimony
12.04.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsI was talking to my cousin for the first time yesterday. That sounds pretty lame, but I have about seventy first cousins and this was the wife of a cousin several years younger than me. She is almost due with their second child, and it turns out she is seeing the American Fork midwives like [...]
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baby Molly, childbirth, labor & delivery, motherhood, scout
Birth Story, finally
11.16.10 | Permalink | 13 CommentsI think this is the part where I get to say, demurely and modestly, of course, that thank you, thank you, yes, no applause please, I birthed that baby without any pain medication. But all I can really say is that that is some PAINFUL stuff, and if I hadn’t been blessed with a pretty [...]
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book review, childbirth, labor & delivery, pregnancy
What to Read When You’re Expecting
10.04.10 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI’m still not quite ready to write Molly’s birth story. I’ve started several times, but can’t find a good way to balance the facts and analysis with the wonder, the amazement, the relief. I have relived it several times in retrospect, something I don’t remember doing with my other births. I mentioned this to Chrysanthemum [...]
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childbirth, labor & delivery, pregnancy
The tyranny of freedom, the empowerment of surrender, OR, this was easier when I wasn’t in charge
08.29.10 | Permalink | 14 CommentsI’m nine days “overdue.” When I first started reading up on natural childbirth, I never thought I’d be seriously considering getting induced at some point because I just assumed that, with this kid being my fourth, and having had one baby (Callie) come early, that things would just happen on their own, in an acceptable [...]
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childbirth, labor & delivery, pregnancy
Birth Plans
07.29.10 | Permalink | 25 CommentsAt my 36/37 week appointment yesterday, I was 1-2 cm dilated and 70% effaced. This was only my second vaginal exam this pregnancy, and since I was getting the Group B strep test anyway, I said sure when the midwife asked if I’d like her to check how things were looking down there. I’ve been [...]
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Being Mormon, health, labor & delivery
Prenatal Palliative Care
04.05.10 | Permalink | 11 CommentsEaster 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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labor & delivery
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 [...]
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