Someone asked me recently if I could boil my birth career down to five tips for pregnant people (and after I freaked out and said, “but there’s SO MANY!”), I got my thoughts together and put Daddy in charge of the kids while I wrote the tips that I wish someone had told me four …
It must have been about eight years or two-hundred births in, although that didn’t really matter as I was past the point of counting the number of births I’d attended to define my cool-girl-birthworker status. I was on a relaxed run on any mundane Fall day, there was a nip in the air as I …
I’m often overheard saying there are trends in birth, just like any field. It actually probably annoys those closest to me because I say it often enough. In that vein, Arrow has decided to make an annual prediction for the trends we think we’ll see in birth for the upcoming year. Without further ado, and …
“Oh, honey, we just don’t open up.” My mothers promise runs through my head, constantly. In three generations no woman in our family has had a vaginal birth. My twins were born via Cesarean. I wanted a home birth this time. I wanted it badly. I wanted it for my family-aunts, sister, mother, and …
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