Childbirth

Cora’s Home Birth Photos

I finally put together Cora’s birth story, and if you read it, you’ll understand why there are no pictures of the actual birth (she came fast!).  But I’ve had a lot of people ask me what the biggest difference between hospital birth and home birth is, and while the birth it’s self is more relaxing [...]

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It’s a Girl!

We’re so happy that the homestead grew by one this week! Cora Josephine was born into her daddy’s hands at home on July 19, 2011 at 2:32am. 8 pounds even, 20.75 inches long.  We’ve been babymoonin’ all week, and resting when she sleeps as much as possible.  I will try to get a few posts [...]

Categories: Childbirth, Cora | 11 Comments

My Mother Blessing

Last weekend, I was blessed to have some beautiful women in my home to have a mother blessing for me.  It was a nice morning, and very special. A mother blessing, sometimes called a blessingway, is kind of an alternative to a baby shower.  Since this is our third baby, we really didn’t have a [...]

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Stop Swallowing Watermelon Seeds and Other Goals for 2011

So twelve weeks (plus or minus a bit) ago, I swallowed a watermelon seed.  This Friday we should be able to hear the heartbeat.  Yep, you read that right.  We are knocked up with number three here. I was going to post those pictures that women take showing their growing belly, and I thought it’d [...]

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Independence Days: Weeks 20 through 22

We’ve been busy this summer and I’ve not had much time to write about it! I was privileged to go to a friend’s birth at the very end of July – it turned out to be a long birth and it took me a couple days to recover.  I don’t know how those midwives do [...]

Categories: Beekeeping, Canning and Food Preservation, Childbirth, Emmett, Food, Garden, Henry, Independence Days | 2 Comments

Announcing: Sweet Sprouts!

I’m officially a certified childbirth educator, complete with birth charts, business cards and a WEBSITE.  Please make sure to check out SweetSprouts.org!!!  You can also become a Fan on Facebook or follow SweetSprouts on Twitter. The blog has been up for a while now (since the beginning of the year), and my readership keeps increasing, [...]

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Birth Blog

Well – here’s part one of my new business:  the blog.  It will eventually be a part of my main website, but I’ve hired someone to build that for me and it’s not done yet.  But I can do the blog part myself, so this is what I have so far – more to come, [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: The Final Countdown

It gets mailed in Monday… wish me luck!

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