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Baby O., Our Little Miracle

I have written before that I think each child comes with a life-affirming story. Each child is a survivor. If you have had enough children for enough time, you become very aware not only of how resilient children are, but also how fragile. God sustains them, and we parents look on with gratitude. When I say Baby O. is a miracle, I mean it. It’s ironic that I anticipated writing a very boring birth story for this child. Scheduled C-sections Continue Reading…
August 27, 2008
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And Then There Was Q.

Sorry. I was hoping to carry the Lemony Snicket allusions in the titles through to the end of this semi-birth story series, but, alas, penultimate means next to the last, and I don’t know if Q. is my next-to-last baby or not. So The Penultimate Peril was out. And The Reptile Room just didn’t seem fitting. So And Then There Was Q. it is. As I told anyone who would listen, I had contractions with Q. for just under four weeks. Four Continue Reading…
January 24, 2007
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The Slippery Slope

I shared E.’s birth story in The Bad Beginning. When it came time to birth A., the words of my OB from the first C-section came back to me: “I wouldn’t let you labor next time. It’s sure to happen again.” We had moved to a new city, and I had a new OB {the OB that delivered me, incidently} who gently encouraged me to have a VBAC, but I was too terrified after my previous experience, and this OB Continue Reading…
January 22, 2007
The Bad Beginning

I have been meaning to write up a birth story concerning Baby Q. But the more I think about it the more I realize that the story about Q. cannot be properly understood unless I first tell the story of A. and especially the story of E. E. is what I call The Bad Beginning. He was my first C-section, and a terribly traumatic experience it was, too. So here it is. Please be warned that what is to follow Continue Reading…
January 21, 2007