Happy 4th Birthday, Evangeline
Celebrating Evangeline’s 4 years earthside.
Maternal Mental Health
This is something that I feel we (women specifically) have been conditioned to do over the generations - stop listening to our instincts, and start sacrificing how we feel for the sake of others. I honestly feel this is a big part that plays into maternal mental health.
How this Pregnancy is Different
I had to make the conscious decision to be at peace that this pregnancy is going to be different.
I see the Light
I listened to I See the Light which is a love song between the main characters, and all I could hear was a love song to my daughter and how much I ached that I watched her first two years of life through a heavy fog of postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety.
Happy BIrthday Olive
Healing to Conception
After a few months of care and month after month of heart and spirit breaking negative pregnancy tests, Zach and I decided to ask Dr. Jordan and Dr. Matt for additional information on the fertility protocol mentioned at our initial intake.
How I healed from Postpartum Mood DIsorders without a Prescription
*This is in no way shape or form a way to replace seeking professional help or medical advise. This is showing how I worked WITH my care providers, and how I saw several specialists before I decided what route to take for my healing.
Rainbow Baby - Pregnancy After Loss
As a birth worker, and childbirth educator and currently pregnant with our rainbow baby I am sharing this from a place of personal experience of practical application.
Postpartum Care & Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Your employer/company should not consider pregnancy loss is as a vacation; any time-off taken for healing is bereavement time.
Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness
No one wants to talk about this - neither did I. Now that I am a bereaved mother I want to talk about it as much as possible so that others might learn from my experience. This is my attempt to bring awareness to pregnancy and infant loss in 2019.
I Know How You Feel…
“I know how you feel! I friend of mine, their sister had a miscarriage.” Yes, I have been on the receiving end of this statement.
People Pleasing & Pregnancy
We do not want to make waves even though there is something churning in our gut that says “I do not agree with that” or “I do not understand why”. We do not want to upset “our superiors” as we subconsciously view them. We do not want to run the risk of offending them. So we just nod our heads in acceptance all while we just tightly secured our seatbelts in the passenger seat of our pregnancy, labor, and birth.
“do your best”
I came across a piece of paper with the tiny words “do your best”.
At that moment with still a handful of pieces of paper left to go through I already knew this was the winning piece of paper. I asked who the paper belonged to. A sheepish little hand popped up. The tiny hand belonged to a little girl.
“Mommy Juice”
“I just need a break!” She yelled not at anyone in particular, but as a cry out of desperation.
Mother Registry, not Baby Registry
When the focus is on the decor and cupcake flavors and everyone wants to help plan a party, but no one shows up to help with dishes, laundry, and meal prep 3 weeks postpartum our priorities as a society need to be reevaluated.
PAIL - Pregnancy & Infant Loss
“Your hCG levels have dropped by half since your last beta test, and there was nothing on your ultrasound. I’m sorry but you’re no longer pregnant. Do you want to schedule a D&C now or call back?”
Dressing Room Confessions
My whole life has been spent so much like other women, unfortunately - hating what I looked like.
28
In my 27th year, I fully embodied my name. Noble Strength.
Five Years
“We are where we are in life today because we not only trusted God by taking MANY leaps of faith but because we trudged through YEARS of being uncomfortable.“
Self Advocate Pt. 2
Informed consent is so incredibly important and you deserve to be knowledgeable before you’re in labor.