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If You Ever Want to See an OBGYN Again… Don’t Have a Homebirth

This post would have been a lot sharper, a lot more angry if I had written it an hour ago, but after some time spent T1 and listening to a Dashboard Confessional Pandora station I now feel like curling up into a corner and crying. And eating my feelings.
Based on your comments from my last [...]

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Postpartum Recovery

Yeah, what you will read below is pretty awful. He was worth it.
Before OMGMom published her post Bodily Functions After Baby I had no idea how much work it was to do something as normal as using the restroom. Before I gave birth I decided that I wanted to keep a log of my [...]

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The GYN Appt Gone Bad

Wait, do gynecologist appointments ever leave you feeling like it’s “gone good”?

This story makes T1 screaming mad. Nobody insults his birth experience and gets away with it.
I had some concerns about the way my tear from the birth was healing, so I decided to go see an OB/GYN to make sure everything was healing properly. [...]

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Labor/Birth Q&A

As mentioned in a previous post I anticipated that there would be a lot of questions. I decided it made the most sense to consolidate all of the information in one place, and so this post is your opportunity to let loose and ask all of those burning questions. I just knew someone would be [...]

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The Birth of T1: Part IV

Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV

Monday, April 12th, 2:00 pm
“2:08 pm Started pushing. ‘I’m scared’.” This was the last note my mom wrote down for me in the labor notebook. And I was scared, I was terrified. Sarah had to assure me many times that my bottom half was not going to split in two because [...]

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