Meconium, Home Birth, Hospital Transport and a Healthy Baby

This is quite a journey and there is lots to learn in this beautiful birth story.  You can have a healthy baby "post due", you can...

Losing The Baby Weight - How To Do It, Even With A Big Family

One fit mom of three!  Photo from Brynja Photography- Spokane Washington . How do you lose the baby weight?  How do you get back into shape ...

No More Cloth Diapers

I think I may have just washed my last cloth diaper. No, nobody potty trained.  This post is actually an act of crunchy heresy.  I have swit...

What Does Pushing Feel Like In Labor?

Photo donated by a reader for use, by dfwbirthphotographer.com.  The moments just after birth. What does "pushing" or the second s...

Home Waterbirth Video

 Got this fabulous home waterbirth video from the videographer.  So great to see the noises and movements that a real woman makes in some re...

Waterbirth Birth Story- First Time Mom

I just LOVE how excited this mama is about labor and birth even though she admits it wasn't easy.  That is the indescribable thing about...

What To Do When The Kids Start Puking

That is a great puke bucket.  (morguefile.com) How do you handle the stomach flu when you have children?  Seriously, is there any way you ca...

Bits and Pieces- Birth Story

I think the thing I love most about this birth story is how calm and relaxed the mother is and how that allows her to have a calm and rathe...