The Blog Sharing Stories & Healing Subscribe Krista's Story: Obstetric Violence, Forceps Delivery & Birth in a Pandemic Story of my Learning About BT My story does not involve loss of life, a near-miss, or surgery, and it is complex, spanning my entire reproductive, and perinatal experience. I struggled for such a long time, and actually still do, to a lesser degree, with feelings of guilt surrounding the fact that I felt traumatized by my experience, and that its impact on me has been so profound. But a quote I recently discovered by Viktor Frankl, has been so helpful in how I thi ..read more

The Blog Sharing Stories & Healing Subscribe Jordan's Story: Gestational Diabetes, Emergency C-Section & Postpartum Healing Pregnancy Journey My daughter Julianne was brought into this world at 11:21 pm on Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Just shy of three years later I still get a lump in my throat talking about the process of bringing her earthside. Jules is the light of my life, and although I bask in all of the glory of being a Mama, as I know all too well the overwhelming ache women experience longing for a child of their own, I can’t help but feel relieved to know I am not alone as ..read more

The Blog Sharing Stories & Healing Subscribe Angela's Story: The Phoenix, Prolapsed Cord, and EMDR  Phoenix. According to an ancient legend, this mythical bird is known for burning to death and rising from its ashes. A symbol of renewal and birth. For four years we spent an adventurous time full of personal growth in Phoenix, Arizona where we would gain inspiration for the name of our second born, Phoenix Kingston-or what we like to call him, P.K. Little did we know, this name would correlate with the experience of our own little miracle boy who rose from the ashes himself. Prola ..read more

The Blog Sharing Stories & Healing Subscribe Addison's Story: Pregnancy After Loss, Postpartum Hemorrhage, & PPD/PPA. STRUGGLING TO HAVE A BABY Ever since I was young (quite literally, since I had my first period) I’ve wanted to be a mom. It has always felt like the one thing I was meant to do with my life. I was always so careful to use birth control and prevent any unplanned surprises, thinking that it would only take one time to conceive a baby. Turns out, that’s not how it worked out for my husband and I. After a full year of trying (with LH strips, the Ava bracelet, studying ..read more

The Blog Sharing Stories & Healing Subscribe Lindsay's Story: Postpartum Blood Clot and Pulmonary Embolism A Normal Pregnancy & Delivery My husband Michael and I learned I was pregnant with our second baby in the spring of 2020, due February of 2021. This being our second time around, we knew what to expect and I felt pretty prepared for what was to come. With my first pregnancy, I had 7 months of morning sickness and a PUPPs rash. Otherwise, it was a healthy pregnancy. My second pregnancy went even smoother without the rash and less morning sickness. Like my first pregnancy, my s ..read more

It’s Supposed to Be the Best Day? My favorite green sweater is sitting, hung up in the front of my closet. It is the sweater that I wore when I went to the hospital the day I went into labor with my second daughter. Now, it is also the sweater that I wore when I went to the hospital to have a baby and almost didn’t come back home. I haven’t been able to wear it since so it just sits there, hung up. When I think about what happened on that day, I have a hard time remembering it all. I have a constant tugging or need to try and make sense of it or understand it. Sometimes I go through our fami ..read more

My name is Ebony Ford, and at 26 weeks pregnant, I was diagnosed with severe preeclampsia & HELLP syndrome.  Reigning Over It After 5 years of infertility & 3 losses, my husband & I were elated to find out that we were pregnant again in October of 2017. My pregnancy was uneventful but due to my history, I needed to see a high-risk obstetrician. At 25 weeks, I developed a bit of swelling in my feet and made a note to tell my doctor at my appt. But I arrived at the appointment to find that my doctor had an emergency and I would be seeing a partner. My blood pressure seemed fine ..read more

First Pregnancy Throughout my first pregnancy I was the model patient for my provider, overweight yes, but otherwise without complication, until of course I wasn’t. To this day I wish I had realized what labor and pre-term labor was and I wonder IF only I had gone in sooner. Food Poisoning? It all started on a Sunday, July 15, 2018, while my husband worked on the room that would be the nursery. He still had 10 weeks before it needed to be done, although I’d hoped we would be further along in the process- there were still no walls. I had been plagued by nausea and terrible swelling the whole p ..read more