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Inside Motherhood

Archive for the ‘Birth basics’ Category

July 30th, 2008

Woman has her baby at Sesame Place!

You know what’s a lot of fun? Telling your kids the story of how they were born. I especially look forward to telling my youngest how I was very sure she was going to be born on the side of the highway since I was already starting to push a bit […]

By Sherry -- 3 comments

July 8th, 2008

Born in 60 seconds!

When I went into labor with my second child, I was remarkably calm about it. My water broke and I quietly roamed around, packing up some toys for my oldest to take to her grandparents’ house and packed up my own stuff - I had a hospital bag packed but I needed to add […]

By Sherry -- 0 comments

April 10th, 2007

There’s a new source for natural childbirth on the Web

I received an e-mail from one of my dearest friends today: at long last, she has begun her own blog!
She is studying to become  a midwife, and has some great knowledge, stories, and support to share. Please visit Kat often as she builds her blog on Empowering Birth. I’m so excited to have her here […]

By Christina -- 0 comments

April 6th, 2007

keep on moving, mama!

I’m not a very tall woman. My son, when I was pregnant with him, decided to build himself a luxury condo. Sometimes, I think he was trying to move to a penthouse suite, the way he climbed my ribs. Mostly, he did a lot of rearranging of my insides, kicking and pushing and trying to […]

By Christina -- 0 comments

March 20th, 2007

Where do babies come from?

He’s almost four. His mami told him when he was a little guy that the daddy plants a seed in the mommy and a baby grows.
Now he wants to know how. How does the seed get in there? how does the baby grow? Where does the baby grow? I’ve been deflecting most of these questions […]

By Christina -- 2 comments

February 10th, 2007

Dr. Manny jumps on the publicity bandwagon of Anna Nicole’s death

As if we mothers didn’t have enough to worry about already, a Fox News talking head has turned wild speculation into a chance to tell us what we already know: having a baby can kill you, even after the fact. It’s called ‘maternal death’ in case you didn’t know, and we’re all at risk. No, […]

By Christina -- 0 comments