Even though your baby is going to come whether you have all of these things or not, they're really helpful in labor for both you and your partner. Before we get started: My Natural Childbirth ebook and hospital checklist as well as other Simple Living Mommy Freebies are in my FREE Subscriber Library. Sign up here! Honey The first is honey. If you deliver in a hospital, you won't be allowed to eat anything after you arrive. If your doctors and nurses will let you, honey is awesome during labor to give you an extra energy boost. I recommend purchasing either honey Read The Full Story
A Natural Birth Story
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
