Our official due date was Christmas day. I fully expected he’d arrive a 1-2 weeks early or within 1-2 days before or after Christmas, as that was my previous pattern. Baby one came two days after her due date, baby two came one day before his due date, and baby three came two weeks before. So I truly expected this baby to come somewhere around 38 weeks through just a couple days past Christmas. When we made it through Christmas, I was actually relieved. We still had parties t

THE BIRTH OF MY FIRST BABY: My first pregnancy was labeled “high-risk,” and for good medical reason. Around 35 weeks my blood pressure began climbing, and by 37 weeks I had all the classic signs of preeclampsia: severe swelling, rapid weight gain from fluid retention, protein in my urine, and hypertension. At the same time, my husband had just accepted a new job and we were moving three hours away at the last minute - without a new provider or birth plan in place in our new c

After my first birth, I knew I wanted the second birth to be different. I was induced at 40 weeks with my first, because a 3rd trimester...

My previous labor with number four was after experiencing the loss of our twins, two weeks of intense and unrelenting prodromal labor,...

First a little backstory: I had three hospital births prior to my home birth. Each of them were pretty smooth, fairly quick labors, and I...

The first thing you need to know about me is that I didn’t get married until I was 33, and had my first baby a month shy of 34....