by WP Management Team Dev | Jun 16, 2015 | Healing From Traumatic Birth
My Vision I pictured sitting in my birth pool, Jack Johnson playing in the background, and lavender candles burning. Bringing my beautiful girl earth-side, in my home, with my husband to catch her was my dream for her birth. All of that sounded beautiful to me. Labor...
by WP Management Team Dev | Jun 5, 2015 | Doulas I Know, Natural Birth Stories
Teslas, Million Dollar Homes, and a “Butter Birth” – Adventures of a Doula As a doula, I’ve had some great experiences with many couples. Some couples lead very interesting lives, very different from my own. I was expecting to hear from one of...
by WP Management Team Dev | Jun 4, 2015 | Bradley Method, Natural Birth Stories
My husband, Tim, and I took Liza’s Bradley Method Childbirth Class after I heard about it from a co-worker many years ago. It was something I kept in the back of my mind for when I did get pregnant, and we are so glad we made this decision. I knew it would be a good...
by WP Management Team Dev | Apr 22, 2015 | Bradley Method, Natural Birth Stories
What Is This Tightness In my Belly? I had myself convinced that I was going to carry my baby far past her due date. I was expecting to feel that labor was coming. Some sort of change in my body that let me know things were going to start happening. It wasn’t until the...
by WP Management Team Dev | Apr 7, 2015 | Natural Birth Stories
Ignore Your Labor and Your Pre-Labor! By early February Pre-labor contractions began getting strong enough to regularly awaken me at night. I would time them for a while and then decide to ignore them and go back to sleep. “Ignore your labor” is what we had been...