There is so
much about that birth experience and the time that child was an infant I wish wholeheartedly I could change.
Not exact matches
The baby is just sort of an add on bonus if it lives, cause the
experience of
birth is so
much more important than actually getting to do the parenting part (like dressing your baby in silly onesies, laughing
about her having your great aunt's curly hair and taking embarrassing pics to share later).
These days, most women don't
experience much about childbirth until they're actually pregnant and contemplating giving
birth themselves.
When a woman chooses not to have a drug - free
birth experience, women who believe in the superiority of natural
birth tend to think of her as less - than: she took the easy way out; she just doesn't get it; she probably doesn't really care
about her health, or her baby's health, as
much as I care
about mine.
There were pluses and minuses
about my
experiences and I have learned that so
much to do with my minuses has to do with the
birth team I selected for my
births.
Where we ended up and how, is no secret at this point, but the details of the home
birth experience have not been spoken
about much by either of us.
When she told her doula (who she didn't end up needing at the
birth)
about how
much trouble she was having breastfeeding, she told Boss that she had
experienced similar problems with her first child, and ended up exclusively pumping her breast milk for two years.
LEILANI WILDE: Thank you so
much Rochelle, Kristen and Dawn for sharing your knowledge and
experience with us
about breastfeeding after a cesarean
birth.
I told her that if I had known that
birth is
about so
much more than just «getting the baby out,» that if I had known that I would be processing and working through my feelings
about that
birth experience for the rest of my life, then I would never have been so flippant, so unattached and uninvolved, so dangerously naive in my preparation for my daughter's
birth.
This may take the form of glasses of water, foot massages, bringing you up a meal, holding the baby whilst you have a shower, talking over the
birth experience, postnatal exercises, chatting
about baby names, offering you the evidence for episiotomy or scar healing and
much more.
Tonight I get to rub shoulders with hopeful adoptive moms, adoptive moms,
birth moms — some who are open
about their
experience and some who are
much less so, moms who foster, teens who were adopted, women who were adopted, expectant moms thinking
about adoption, women who have siblings who were adopted,
birth grandmas, caseworkers, teens and tweens in the foster care program, a couple dudes... and possibly a few that I missed!
It was the most amazing
experience and from what I've heard from other mothers and friends
about recent
births in hospital, I had a
much more pleasant
experience and with far better care.
With pigs in her heart and for love of Marshall, she dug out as
much learning as possible
about swine medicine, then took a job for six months at a 2,500 commercial sow farm to gain swine production
experience, cleaning up after mother pigs who gave
birth, caring for dozens of tiny pink squealing piglets, separating and counting barrows and gilts (male and female pigs) on weaning days.