I was staring into the air and thinking about c-sections. Yes, this is what I sometimes do when I get that look and drift off into that space in my head when my eyes go blurry. You know what I mean? Oh, you don’t? Oh. Oops. Okay. Scratch that then. But I was thinking about [...]
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I go back and forth and back and forth in my silly little head about all the what ifs and maybe I should’ves when it comes to the birth of my twins. Ya’ll probably know the deal by now since I wrote about it a lot — preeclampsia, HELLP syndrome, almost had a stroke, was [...]
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I can’t stop thinking about my Ina May Gaskin experience and of course it’s all the more in my head because I am reading her book, Birth Matters. And the more I think about certain points she brings up, the more I understand, the more I realize how some of us are overly-sensitive and missing [...]
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Humans are mammals. We’re animals that walk on two legs instead of four and have nifty opposable thumbs. We can use logic and are able to build huge civilizations, and thrive in them. So why are we the only mammals that have such a hard time giving birth? Why do we think that our bodies [...]
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