During labor, there is a small window of time in which a woman can receive an epidural to alleviate her pain. Once you have progressed beyond that window, however, an epidural is no longer an option. Regardless of how much pain you are in or how sure you.
Topics: Baby, birth, breathing techniques, childbirth, delivery pain management, epidural, labor, lamaze, natural childbirth, phases of labor

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Little Wonders - Rob Thomas *In celebration of our daughter’s birth and in thanks for all of your love and support, those are our kids’ real names in the photos above. Please don’t mention them in the comments, as I’d still like Google to think...
Topics: Baby, Family & Marriage

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(Updates publishing at bottom of post + more on twitter) My hands smell like Dreft. I am surrounded, on my bed, by a foreign sea of pink. My belly periodically morphs into the shape of an almond, pointy end suggestively aiming toward the door… Every...
Topics: babies, Baby, birth, Books, breathing techniques, delivery, Family & Marriage, labor, lamaze, lamaze international, motherhood, pregnancy

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Did you notice that? A flash. A glimpse? An unexpected swell. Olive is due within weeks, if not days. All of my emotions have settled directly into my chest and occasionally push the breath right out of me. When I least expect it, they flood upward, into.
Topics: Baby, baby blues, depression, Family & Marriage, maternity, motherhood, postpartum, postpartum depression, pregnancy, Threadbare Self

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The Type-A Mom Conference was wonderful. It was exactly what I needed to invigorate my mind and settle my soul before the baby arrives. This baby that has now attended three writing conferences. What stories! What support. But whew. Am I tired. Stories...
Topics: Baby, maternity, motherhood, pregnancy, sisterhood, Travel, type a mom conference, type-a, type-a mom, wordless wednesday, writing

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