The Umbilical Cord

I’ve gotten several hits on my blog about this subject, so thought I might as well go in depth with this a bit more. The umbilical cord is what connects the baby to the mother. Soon after conception, the baby (embryo may be the “correct” term for this stage of development) burrows into the lush [...]

Why I am Pro-Life

Explore this website. Among other things, abortion kills women, increases their risk of future problems in pregnancy including but not limited to future infertility, increased risk of miscarriage and stillbirth, and preterm labor. Then there are the mental side effects, which are less visible but no less harmful.

Excellent Blog Award

By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, I have to award it to 10 more people whose blogs I find Excellent Award worthy. I can give it to as many people as I want but please award at least 10. Thank you out there for having such great blogs and being such great friends! You deserve [...]

Coming to terms with a bad birth experience

One of the things that has spurred me on to become a childbirth educator is the sheer number of birth stories I have read in which the woman had a bad experience. Those experiences were varied, and some of the times couldn’t have been changed (like the woman whose C-section operation was started before the [...]

How to turn a breech baby

One of the more common reasons a woman is given for “needing” a C-section is that her baby is breech–that is, the head is near the top of the uterus, instead of at the cervix. Prior to the 1970s, doctors were trained how to matter-of-factly handle breech births. At the time, C-sections were much riskier [...]

And now for something completely different….

Tag surfing, I came across this blog, that I thought was just absolutely hilarious, so I’m sharing it with you. Enjoy!

More than words

Have you ever heard the saying, “The tension was so thick, you could cut it with a knife”? You’ve probably been in a situation like that, and you know what I’m talking about–there is this intangible something in the room–some combination of your feelings with the feelings of other people, and even without a word [...]

Repeat Miscarriages

Just spreading the word around that a woman is writing a book to answer questions about why women miscarry. She says in her blog that she began this process because she couldn’t find a book that really explored this subject–why women miscarry, what they can do differently, what has worked, what doesn’t. She needs more stories of women who [...]

Words are Powerful

With this title, I could say a lot about how those who are attending a woman in pregnancy, labor, and birth can affect her with what they say and how they say it. And that’s true–what one says, and how people talk, to a laboring woman can encourage and motivate her in her work (labor), or it can [...]

Birth Control and Contraception–there is a difference

On one of my email lists, we’ve gotten into a discussion about various types of birth control. Although it’s not strictly about pregnancy, labor, or birth, most women after having a child will want some information about how to wait before having another child; some women don’t–”the more the merrier” philosophy. To each her own. You [...]