by WP Management Team Dev | Jul 21, 2015 | Bradley Method, Healing From Traumatic Birth
The Monday before Ada was born, I woke up at 2 am with intense cramping. I couldn’t sleep, so I rocked on my exercise ball, applied a heating pad to my back, and snacked a bit. The contractions were painful, but I could easily talk through them....
by WP Management Team Dev | Jul 2, 2015 | Bradley Method
For the 2 weeks before my due date, I was growing increasingly impatient. I wanted to meet this baby already! I started massaging the labor inducing pressure points, eating spicier foods, and going for long walks. The weekend before the due date, Nico and I walked...
by WP Management Team Dev | Feb 18, 2015 | Natural Birth Stories
We had a pretty wild ride before we met our new family member, Merrick. On Thursday February 5th Laura started having contractions, so we started to get excited! Though we knew from our Bradley Method class that the first thing to do is ignore...
by WP Management Team Dev | Feb 3, 2015 | Healing From Traumatic Birth
IT’S NOT MY FAULT. It’s the biggest lesson I can continue to try to learn. It’s what I keep telling myself. My first wonderful daughter was born in December 2011. I wanted a natural birth. I took the Bradley Method, saw midwives, ate right, exercised, did yoga. I went...
by WP Management Team Dev | Jun 2, 2014 | Healing From Traumatic Birth
There is NO WRONG WAY to have a baby. “I feel like I did everything wrong.” Those are the words from a new mom who was so traumatized by her birth experience, that it took her 4 months to reply to my emails and phone calls and write down the details and tell me, her...