News — birth

Feeling overwhelmed as your due date approaches? The third trimester is full of changes physically, emotionally, and mentally. In this post, I’m sharing simple, midwife-approved tips to help you prepare for birth without the stress, from body readiness to emotional grounding and what you actually need to pack.

Well… here it is. I’ve tried to start writing this blog about 365 times, give or take. Every single day I think about Evelyn’s birth and the events leading up to it. I think about all the false labor, the random pains (e.g. “lightning crotch” - enough said), how miserable I was that last week of pregnancy. Now that I’m on the other side of her first year earthside, all I want to remember is this: I. DID. IT. I set my mind to something and I did it. Not because I wanted to say I did it, but because...