When they hear that I’ve been going to college again (“going” being a bit of a misnomer; it’s all online), people often ask me, “How do you do it all?” The answer is, “I don’t.” When I’m on top of things I can sort of rotate what gets taken off my plate. (I imagine this […]
Sophia’s Birth Story
Sophia’s Birth Story Throughout the weekend of my “due date,” (Friday/Saturday/Sunday), I had contractions off and on. I did get the impression that they were might be “doing something,” different from the Braxton-Hicks contractions I’d been having for months. There was more pressure or they were concentrated in a different place, or I could feel […]
Ariel’s Birth Story
I’m not much of a “birth story” person. Unless there is something exceptionally unusual about a given birth (like the one on YouTube where a mama delivered an unexpected twin!), I have no particular interest in reading birth stories. Which means it doesn’t typically occur to me to share mine, either. But in honor of […]