I’ve been trying to take more random photos to use in my posts as I think blog posts are always better with a picture attached. Don’t you agree? Last week was my second appointment with Sarah, and it simply couldn’t come fast enough, after an indulgent Thanksgiving weekend and a few days of swollen ankles. [...]

I shouldn’t have been surprised that so many of you reacted so strongly when I wrote at 13 weeks that I didn’t have a midwife yet, but out of all the birth topics I could write about I didn’t expect pre-natal care to be such a contentious one. As with most of my conversation inducing [...]

I discovered Pregtastic pretty early in my pregnancy, and since that time have listened to over 100 of the 158 episodes. I’ve skipped a few that I thought were frivolous (those that were discussion based, focusing on light topics I found unimportant), but for the most part I eat them up, listening in the car, [...]

The hunt for a midwife has been long and difficult. From what I understand, when most women are pregnant they talk to their girlfriends and find out who people liked, find out if the provider is covered by their insurance, and begin their prenatal care. I’ve found the search for the right midwife to be [...]

Please note that I have scientific data backing up every claim marked with an *. Please contact me for references where you can read these studies and papers for yourself. All quotes and statistics are taken from a fabulous book titled Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities by Henci Goer. I’m about to make lots o’ [...]