Our long-awaited little Dumplin' is finally here! I'm sharing his birth center birth story with all of you - but fair warning - there may be a little too much information for some. Please don't read if you blush easily. Okay - here we go! Throughout my whole second pregnancy, my main concern was that I wouldn’t be able to stay pregnant long enough to deliver at our birth center. Our first son was born at just 34 weeks 6 days, so we had to go to the hospital instead. I have nothing against delivering in a hospital, but soon after I delivered our Nugget, I knew I wanted to try to Read The Full Story
Pain Management in Natural Childbirth
Pain Management in Natural Childbirth When I found out I was pregnant with my first baby, I did a ton of research about what to expect during labor and delivery. I ended up settling on the fact that an intervention-free, natural birth was what I wanted, but I wasn’t sure I was tough enough to handle it. There are a few key things that went through my mind to help me with pain management in natural childbirth. Update 5/26/18: I delivered with baby #3 6 weeks ago and can't recommend this course enough. I love it more than the Bradley Method because it truly Read The Full Story
A Natural Birth Story – Nugget’s Debut – Part 2!
The Big Day... January 6th started out like any other day late in my pregnancy. We woke up really early to a snowy morning, the first real snow in Pittsburgh that winter. I took Scotty to work and we had time to nap in the car in his company's parking lot. Sleep was hard for me to come by because I had terrible sciatic nerve pain the whole last few weeks of my pregnancy. Scotty finally went in to work and I headed to my office about twenty minutes away. When I was getting off the exit, I started to fish tail and managed to get the car under control and back into my own lane. I made it to Read The Full Story
A Natural Birth Story – Nugget’s Debut!
[wp_ad_camp_2] When I decided to have a natural birth with my first baby, I researched and researched and read birth plans and birth stories. For anyone who loves reading birth stories as much as I do – this is the birth story of my beautiful little Nugget! I don’t know about you, but when I was pregnant for the first time, I was overwhelmed at the amount of information being thrown at me regarding labor and delivery. If I were to go to my PCP for my prenatal care, I would have to deliver at a hospital in our town that I wasn’t a huge fan of. Switching doctors meant leaving behind the Read The Full Story
