My Birth Story: From Home Birth to C-Section. I’m currently pregnant with my third, and it’s got me thinking about my first pregnancy and birth with my eldest son. I don't think I've ever told the story in full, (and how I so royally fucked it up), so here it is. In a word: it was a shit-show. I was totally inflexible about my "birth plan", and things went fully tits up. Part One: Leading up to the birth I was dead set on a blissful home birth with zero medical intervention,

Whether or not it's popular or politically correct today to say, women have 3 major life phases that are distinguished by our reproductive stage: Maiden. Mother. Matriarch. It appears to me that we live in a culture that worships, attributes status to and is obsessed with the Maiden. And no longer attributes any sort of meaning to the Mother or the Matriarch. Rather it overlooks and even despises them both, seeing them as nothing more than distraction, ageing, being used up a

I'm having another c-section and NOT trying for a VBAC - here's why

I used to think that a C-section was a worst-case scenario. I was totally enamored by the idea of a natural, unmedicated birth, and...