It means I gave birth. I had a baby. I am just as strong and powerful as someone who had given birth vaginally and it sucks that we even have to say that. STOP COMPARING BIRTH....
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As cool as it would be to be in the same category as a midwife, a Doula and a Midwife are not the same....
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Braxton hicks in my opinion are a huge pain the butt. Well pain in the abdomen but you know what I mean!...
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This month your baby is the size of a blueberry. Cute, tiny but not blue and also not edible. Bad joke?
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Baby is now the size of a strawberry. Still really tiny but definitely growing fast!
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Congratulations you are now carrying a tiny lemon sized baby! I am sure they are super sweet and probably a little tart as well! ...
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This month your baby is the size of a Pear! Congratulations! You are now entering the second trimester, this is a huge deal!
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This month baby is the size of a grapefruit! Baby is making themselves more known and you are growing like a weed!...
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Congratulations on your purple eggplant sized baby! You are now nearing the end of the second trimester!...
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Hello sweet baby pineapple! Oh goodness how your baby is growing! ...
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Hello month eight! Okay now we are talkin! What a crazy long journey it has been to get this far. ...
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"IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOOWWNNNNN."
Okay that once super tiny cute grain of rice sized baby is now a beautiful watermelon laying nice and heavily on your bladder
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The most important thing during pregnancy and the postpartum period is having people in your life or A person in your life that you feel safe and comfortable talking with about what is going on with you. That is the first step is having that person that you know you can always talk to and the second step is taking charge ...
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One of the biggest things we have to stop doing is to STOP COMPARING YOUR BIRTH STORIES TO OTHER PEOPLE. Your experience is not going to be the SAME for every single person and their experience will not be like yours....
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Trauma is interesting because it can come in all different shapes, forms and ways. Some traumas may not SEEM traumatic to others but it is to us. We all will react and deal with things in our own way. Birth trauma is real and sometimes I feel like we don't REALIZE IT until later in life when we are talking about it....
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We all could use a cheerleader like that. Someone who is on our team and has our back without overstepping. This is about you and your journey and what you want, we are just here to help you achieve those goals....
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Round ligament pain is a an aching sensation that can come on one or both sides of the abdomen during any time of your pregnancy. It can be sharp, crampy, sometimes it can feel like a period but it never lasts a long time in one sitting. It's common during pregnancy, and you're likely to first notice it as your uterus grows...
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Let's dive right into what you MAY expect when you labor does in fact, begin....
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Sometimes I wish he would just leave... it would make everything so much easier.
my heart hurts. i'm not sure how much more i can take.
i feel like i'm drowning and no one notices.
