Guh, I’m going to have to beg for your patience. Please. I’ve been “under the weather” today. I had to call Scout home from work because I couldn’t peel myself off the bathroom tiles (So!Cool!So!Comforting!). I’d closed all the doors to the upstairs rooms and closed the baby gate at the top of the stairs. I put Alex in the hallway and he spent 40 minutes playing with a cat.. Read More
Birth Story Chapter Two – Family Tradition
(The birth story series starts here.) My mom had the largest influence on my perception of childbirth. She’d had endometriosis and told about laying in bed and focusing on the second hand sweeping around the face of the clock in the hot midwest summer, trying to focus on anything but the pain, filling super duper diaper sized Kotex by the hour as her body recovered. She knew cramps. That being.. Read More