Whenever I hear through the mother’s grapevine that some woman has gone ahead and had a 4-hour labor and a blissful, natural childbirth, I get a pang of envy and regret. What I would have given for a Butter Birth— a short, smooth labor where everything slides! It’s not that I consciously want anyone else [...]
Entries Tagged as 'c-section'
The Cult of Birth
May 19th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Birthing From Within · c-section · cesarean · childbirth · PTSD
C is for Cut
April 26th, 2010 1 Comment
We were lying on the living room rug, wrestling and talking about belly buttons. My daughter has long been fascinated and confused by her navel, which she calls “the hole in my body.” Our conversation meandered to umbilical cords, how babies grow inside their mommies’ tummies, and inevitably, to how babies come out. We’d made [...]
Tags: birth trauma · c-section · cesarean birth · Ina May Gaskin · Sheila Kitzinger
Still Got Milk?
November 10th, 2009 3 Comments
There were certain things I thought I’d never do when I became a mother. I wouldn’t yell at my children, share my marital bed, or nurse through toddler-hood. As my husband said with authority when we first discussed breastfeeding: “If you can ask for it, then you’re too old for it.” Never say never when [...]
Tags: breastfeeding · c-section · cesarean · nursing · Parenting · toddlers