Tag: labor
member name: Dawn M
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May 30, 2007 02:03 PM EDT --
Dmitrios Aleksandr
July 31, 2002
1:19 p.m.
9 lbs 6 oz
20 inches long
14 inch head & 15 inch chest
Our birth story:
All last night I dreamed I was having contractions. I . . .
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May 29, 2007 06:33 PM EDT --
Entering into that liminal space between worlds, when a baby hangs in the balance, not yet born, but being born, when a woman is still a maiden, being transformed into mother, is like going through that . . .
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June 13, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
This is reprinted with permission, written by my husband... I thought it appropriate around Father's Day... :)
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When my wife, Dawn, and I were pregnant with our first child, Zoe, I imagined . . .
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May 30, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
Stages of Labor:
What Will It Feel Like?
What Should I Do?
Stage 1The Latent Phase
This is the longest phase of the first stage of labor. The contractions are farther apart, . . .
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May 20, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
He was conceived in love in July of 2008. He was an Aries, coming to us we knew, some time in late March or early April. I was already the mother of four, yet bringing a fifth child into the world was . . .
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August 27, 2009 07:27 PM EDT --
Inanna Journey - April 4, 2009
My midwife brought us dinner last night and did a quick postpartum check.
"Are you getting any rest and are you bleeding a lot?"
"No...and no."
I'm recovering . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:06 PM EDT --
William's Birth Story - Part One
William would have been a week old today if he'd been alive the day I pushed him into the world. My due date. We'd been anticipating this date for nine months. . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:11 PM EDT --
William's Birth Story - Part 2
"Can I have an epidural?" That's the first thing I said. Actually, the first thing I asked for was a c-section. Me, the woman who's had four natural births, . . .
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September 02, 2009 11:58 AM EDT --
Home
M. went to the funeral home to get William's ashes yesterday.
We stood at the table in a circle around my son's ashes, and my husband said a little blessing. And then he said something . . .
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May 30, 2007 10:17 AM EDT --
RECOMMENDED READING LIST FROM A DOULA
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer
Birthing From Within by Pam England
Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year by Elizabeth . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:09 PM EDT --
My son asked me this week, "Mom, is sex a bad word?" Apparently, he was trying to tell someone at school how the baby got into mommy's tummy, and the teacher didn't appreciate . . .
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May 28, 2007 01:07 PM EDT --
What to Say To a Laboring Woman…
I am so very proud of your courage.
You are so brave and strong. (If she says she doesn't feel brave and strong tell her she doesn't have to feel it . . .
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June 06, 2007 08:59 PM EDT --
This is a story I give to my doula clients and expectant mothers in childbirth classes:
A biology student was watching a butterfly emerge from it's cocoon. It was a long, dramatic and difficult process, . . .
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August 27, 2009 07:21 PM EDT --
Inanna Journey - April 3, 2009
When my now seven year old daughter, Z., was just a year and a half, and my now six year old son, D., was about five months, I decided to give their Daddy, M., . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:02 PM EDT --
Inanna Journey: April 6, 2009
Some of the lessons I'm learning along this journey...
There is no end to suffering. Mine, yours, everyone's. There are no rules. Bad things don't happen . . .
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August 31, 2009 02:16 PM EDT --
William's Birth Story - Part 3
Why had I been so afraid of him? Afraid to see him, touch him, even think of him, after I knew he was gone? Death scares us so much, that constant reminder. We're . . .
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September 02, 2009 11:51 AM EDT --
Inanna Journey April 9, 2009
I should have known I wasn't ready for the world yet, but it was an experiment. We have a family gathering this weekend, and we were supposed to be bringing . . .
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September 02, 2009 12:01 PM EDT --
Wallpaper
I put William's picture up as wallpaper on my computer screen.
For a week, I resisted, thinking it was too morbid, strange. It would be too painful, I told myself. I wouldn't be able . . .
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September 09, 2009 12:35 PM EDT --
Mars and Venus
I don't understand men.
I don't mean I don't love them, or deeply appreciate them and their differences from women - I do.
But sort of in the Venus/Mars . . .
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May 30, 2007 12:36 PM EDT --
These mood swings are driving me crazy! One minute I'm weepy and depressed for absolutely no reason whatsoever, the next minute I'm dreamy and lost and feel like my feet aren't touching . . .
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