A little background info on my VBA2C journey...

My C-Section Births:

For my first pregnancy, I basically trusted the medical doctors in all my prenatal care and never imagined that I would end up with a c-section. Late one night I heard a "pop" and felt a gush of liquid only to realize that it wasnn't my water breaking, but blood. I was admitted into the hospital and induced with pitocin. Because I didn't know any better about the risks involved, I surrendered all my trust and felt that I was in good hands. I asked for an epidural right away. I was checked and found to be 6 centimeters and later told that they made a mistake and I was only a 4. They also felt that I wasn't progressing and my baby was in distress, so they decided a c-section was best.

It took them well over an hour to prepare the OR. If it was so important to get my baby out, why such a long time to prepare the room? After I was cut and my son was born, they found a 15% tear in my placenta... the cause of my bleeding. Still plenty of oxygen going to my son.

I didn't see my son come out and caught a small glimpse of him. 4 hours later, I was able to finally see him. Extremely hard to bond with him. Took me days to get him to latch on. Was that c-section really necessary? I will never know.

My second pregnancy, I started my care thinking VBAC all the way. I did a little research and found what seemed like zero to no positive VBAC stories/research. Everything out there just pointed at the risks. I naturally was scared and when I asked my doctor if a VBAC was allowed, she said yes. I asked her how risky it was, and she said I can have a VBAC, but didn't calm any of my fears and therefore I decided a csection was best. Her scheduled csection on February 23, 2006 went well. I was able to breastfeed right away and was able to bond much sooner than I did with my son Benjamin.

I was actually ok with having csections. It wasn't until my naturopathic doctor kinda insulted me when she said that I didn't give "birth" to my children. I started thinking about it and although I completely disagree with her approach, I realized that she was right. I didn't stress out about it... but I was bummed thinking that I probably would never experience a natural birth.

Comments

Easy Push Pin Styrofoam Ball Ornament

We recently went to a friends school gathering where they had all of us decorate ornaments using sequin pins, sequins, ribbons, pipe cleaners and pom poms. We arrived a bit late and the only supplies left on my table were the sequins and push pins. So I got to work and came up with the following. Fairly simple to make. I imagine hot gluing the sequins on would be quicker. You can come up with different layouts and color combinations. I wanted to create a blue and silver combination, but there weren't enough colors, so I decided to just do a multi color one. We only had an hour to make the ornaments and the school was going to use our ornaments to decorate a tree at our local zoo. So I was short on time and took some photos of a few different combos I came up with. I will definitely be buying some styrofoam balls today! The rougher textured styrofoam balls almost have a blingy look to them which work well if you want to create a design on the ball and have some negati...

Little Pretend Passports

Some deals are too good not to share... especially with those of you who have kids between the ages of 5-10. Every week, we spend some time reading a book in one of the FIAR volumes. Whether it's a US state or a different country, we use our pretend passports every week. We even use it along with Little Passports . They do have their own passport, which includes a new sticker stamp for the country of th at months shipment. However, Little Passports comes with only one passport and I have three kids that want their own passport. So I decided to make our own passports to use along with FIAR and Little Passports . For each country or state we "visit" in our FIAR studies, we stamp our passport. We glue down a flag of the country or state and a passport stamp with the date we traveled to that country. I highly recommend purchasing card stock for the cover Wausau Paper Index Card Stock Unfortunately my 2 year old got a hold of them and wrote all over them... so I w...

Limbourg Brothers Book of Days Art Project

The kids and I try to include at least one art lesson a week. Some of our lessons require more than one day to complete. We plan on going to the Art Institute soon and my husband and I want the kids to be familiar with some of the paintings we might see. So we've been using the book Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters . So far we love it, and it has so many hands-on activities to explore the styles and techniques of the world's greatest artists. They also break up the sections by style/date. This week, we learned about Early Renaissance painters, The Limbourg Brothers. If you're not familiar with the Limbourg Brothers, they are three artist brothers who painted very detailed paintings using thin paintbrushes and magnifying glasses. They created a book with a calendar and pictures of the seasons. The art activity we followed asked to create our own Book of Days. I created a template and had the kids pick a favo...

The Crafty Work At Home Momma

Search This Blog