Tag: pregnancy
member name: Dawn M
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June 23, 2007 07:20 PM EDT --
Pregnant Woman's Body Found - Boyfriend Charged
I kept hoping for a miracle, that somehow she and that baby would be found alive.
Her poor son... I can't even imagine. What a . . .
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June 21, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
This article made my blood run cold.
1,000 Join Search for Missing Ohio Woman
Listen to what the two year old (who they left wandering alone through the house!?!?) repeated:
"Mommy was crying. . . .
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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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August 12, 2009 10:32 PM EDT --
I probably would have said the death of my father - this past February 2009. But then my son was stillborn at 39 weeks gestation just a month and a half later, on April 1, 2009. Double whammy, I guess. . . .
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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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