It’s okay to get an epidural

For almost the last three years I've been searching for a post to help me feel at peace with opting to have epidural births. As soon as I hit the letter "e" in the search bar, Google already knows to prompt the rest of the word, "pidural", and whatever other key phrase I've searched. I've …

Zoe’s Birth Story

I woke up around quarter after five in the morning the Wednesday my daughter was born. This was nothing out of the ordinary, I was waking up multiple times a night at this point to pee. But this time it was different. I was feeling cramping. Not like the kind you feel right before your …

Sawyer’s Birth Story

On June 20th at 8:56 pm, I became a mother. "Babe, I think your mucus plug is in the toilet. Want to see it?" Those where the words that woke me from what I didn't know then would be my last 8 hour sleep in a while, the morning of Monday, June 19th. I got …