Hi, mommas! Having now had 6 amazingly challenging, rewarding, and Holy Spirit filled births (4 of those 100% natural), I wanted to share what I’ve used over the last years to achieve my birthing desires. Birth to me is so much more than just about the physical aspect of preparing. Sure, I gather our home birth […]
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Lylah’s Birth Story: Gearing Up for Labor
If you haven’t read Part 1 of the birth story background, go do that first! The week leading up to Lylah’s birth (38 weeks) I had this gut feeling it was going to be my last week pregnant. Every time I felt a discomfort, heavy, achy, not able to hold Sadie in my lap well […]
Lylah’s Birth Story: The Background
Lylah’s birth story is so much more involved than just the nitty gritty details of contractions and when things happened on her birthing day. No, there was so much soul work done that God began doing before I even saw those 2 lines on a test last May and His work carried through my entire […]
How I Learned the Value of a Doula
I had never had a doula with my 4 previous births. Partially because for the earlier births in the hospital I didn’t know they even existed but once I learned what a doula was, I didn’t think I needed one. Call it pride. Call it ignorance. Call it me wanting to save my money. Whatever […]
Labor and Postpartum Oils: What Worked for Me
Our Sadie turned a month old on Friday…mind blown! Time has flown by already and I am trying my best to treasure every moment of her being so small and cuddly. More on that another day, but I thought it was time to share what I found most helpful during her labor and this postpartum time frame […]
Sadie’s Birth Video
I was honored to have the amazing Katy Cook photograph Sadie’s birth. Through this blog and Facebook we were connected over adoption and it was a pleasure to finally meet her in person. Since Mark couldn’t be at the birth, this birth video and the pictures she captured will be treasured even more by us! […]
Worship Music During Birth: My Play List
The summer I was pregnant with Ashlyn, I remember making a road trip with my 2 older kids to visit family a few hours away. Mark had to work so he wasn’t on the trip and the kids in the back were fast asleep, so that meant I got to control the music! I probably […]