A string of events later, I’m watching two wooden swings swaying underneath a mature maple, a soft backdrop of blue mountains.
A Positive Hypnobabies Birth
The next morning I woke up to my pre-5 a.m. alarm. There was a big snowstorm on the forecast…
Our Peaceful Hospital Birth Story
After six weeks of holding this sweet baby boy on the other side of my belly, I’m happy to finally share our memories of his beautiful, peaceful birth.
“Peaceful” is a word I honestly doubted I would be able to use to describe any of my childbirth experiences. I hoped, yes, but definitely didn’t expect what actually happened.
May We Never Lose our Wonder (II)
They finally let us out! I was officially discharged from our long stay at the hospital when you were 34 weeks old in my womb. That morning was a glorious morning! Now you had grown big enough that if I were to go into labor early, we would most likely have adequate time to get to a hospital before you were born.
May We Never Lose Our Wonder
Dear Daughter,
In the wee hours of the morning, you are sitting cross-legged by the refrigerator, gingerly moving around some magnets. As I move about the kitchen to an old morning worship playlist, I hear you begin singing perfectly along to this song I didn’t know you had ever paid attention to… “You are beautiful in all your ways… may we never lose our wonder…
I abruptly stopped what I was doing to just watch you, and memories fill my heart of those ten weeks that formed us.