Adelaide is 6 weeks old today. I started writing this blog post two weeks ago, but today it's getting posted, no matter what. After both Nora's birth and Zara's birth, I had their stories written within a week, but this time around it's[...]
I mentioned awhile ago that I received a $500 grant to start our La Leche League library. I had a lot of fun thinking about the books I would recommend to local moms and what was helpful to me the first or second time around. Of cou[...]
Now that Zara is most definitely not a newborn and I'm fairly certain that I have survived the postpartum period, I wanted to take a moment to finally write about my post home birth experience. This will be my last post about our hom[...]
One of the best things about having a photographer take pictures at Zara's birth is that through the photographs, I'm able to see parts of the birth that I was oblivious to at the time. I'm able to see things that went on in other rooms a[...]
First a note: This is a birth story. While there are no direct pictures of nudity, there are, of course, some in which I am not clothed and all that is blocking nudity is a baby or camera angle. In addition, this describes Zara's birth an[...]
I am excited to be sharing Zara's birth story later this week, but first I wanted to write a little about the preparations we took to get ready for her birth, most especially the supplies that we gathered and that were brought b[...]
One of the biggest reasons we chose to have a home birth is because we wanted to make the transition into a family of four as easy as possible on Nora. I didn't want to just disappear for two days to the hospital and then bring a baby ho[...]
More photos and Zara's birth story to come, but I cannot wait to share this photo of her getting weighed for the first time. Her little toes and tiny feet are just way too adorable.