Birth Stories

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To say my family's journey to the NICU was unexpected would be an ENORMOUS understatement. If you had told 8-month-pregnant-me, reporting for her last day of work for the school year that I would be holding my first baby...
April is Cesarean Awareness Month. To me, a birth story is like a good book that I can’t put down. I love to hear how these amazing little creatures are born. No birth story is the same, and that’s...
October 26th marks 13 years. 13 years since I delivered our stillborn son. To put it mildly, 2004 was not my best year.  On June 15, 2004, at 27 years of age, I was newly pregnant, and after a routine...
I was overjoyed to learn that I was pregnant for the second time.  My first pregnancy ended with a premature baby in the NICU while I recovered from severe preeclampsia, so I spent this pregnancy praying for a different...
For as long as I can remember, I had a plan of what my life was going to look like. I would meet my husband in college, and we would graduate, travel the world together, land our dream jobs,...
Making a baby is like baking a cake :: You need the right ingredients in the right order for the right amount of time. But how the cake comes together also depends on who the bakers are. When you have...
I am not made of sterner stuff. I cried when I fell down too many times on my first attempt at snowboarding. I over exaggerated a sprained ankle in middle school, requiring me to dramatically exit...only to return with crutches....
Truth be told, I love all things concerning pregnancy.  I enjoy childbirth.  I adore babies and having lots of children and family. If you’ve known me for almost any amount of time, you know this about me. My story as...
Misty's Story Oh, my story.  Like all of our lives, my story is filled with ups and downs.  But none more than my journey to becoming a mother.  And guess what?  I. Wouldn't. Change. A. Thing. It all started with marrying...
You’ve heard the saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Well, in our case it took a village to make a baby. In April 2009, at the age of 24, my husband Mark and I welcomed a...

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