new baby, new mom is written by a new mama about the realities of life with a newborn. her writing is so refreshing. ya’ll know how i love a birth story and this one is so touching to me. quote from a new mom: “the moment she was born, i was born. there was something …
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alone for 9 hours. one mom’s birth. part 2
alone. after giving birth during a planned home delivery, mom was taken to the hospital. her husband stayed home with the baby. they were separated for nine hours. here is part two of their birth story. remember, they get reunited as a family several hours later and she got her fairy tale ending. here is …
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separated for 9 hours. one mom’s birth story
separated from her baby for nine hours after delivery, colleen was reunited and able to hold her baby. separated from your baby is difficult, but especially after just giving birth. colleen shares her birth story. she was transferred to the hospital after she had the baby during a planned home birth. they were reunited nine …
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swiftly born. precipitous delivery.
my momma had her babies fast, really fast, and i followed in her footsteps with two precipitous births of my own! swiftly born is the birth story of my precipitous delivery of our third baby. here is the definition: precipitous delivery is an extremely rapid delivery from the beginning of regular contractions lasting less than …
baby loss. twenty weeks.
baby loss isn’t talked about much. i experienced this first hand. for each one of us who has lost a child, mine was a stillbirth at twenty weeks. i wrote my story because I am finally ready to share it. it took me a long time to be able to talk about losing my baby. i felt …
fire station birth. my story.
my second child’s birth story. fire station birth is my second child’s birth story. it’s my own birth experience and i was a labor and delivery nurse. i am a professional birth photographer with no birth photos but i do have a newspaper clipping! our daughter was not born in the hospital. she was born one block …
12 ideas for bonding with your baby from a postpartum doula
bonding with your baby means getting to know your baby. bonding with your baby. as a postpartum doula in swva , i share my insight and suggestions on getting to know your baby. bonding means taking intentional time to look at, study, and get to know your baby. together, you both get to know each …
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