From the category archives:

Birthing

Leo's Birth Story

July 27, 2010

Leo just turned six weeks old on Sat­ur­day, so yes, it’s taken me a while to get around to writ­ing up our birth story, but it’s been a busy time. The Induc­tion Leo was very big.  His ultra­sound esti­mates were putting him at 5 kg (11 lbs), so the doc­tors wanted to induce before I was […]

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Waiting for the Birth

June 9, 2010

On Fri­day, I hit 39 weeks preg­nant and will be check­ing back in to the hos­pi­tal for a sec­ond attempt at induc­ing labor.  The first attempt, last week, was unsuc­cess­ful. I’m still deal­ing with nau­sea from HG, although it has eased up a bit.  If I don’t go any­where and take it easy, I can […]

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HypnoBabies Hypnotic Childbirth

December 6, 2008

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Tiffany and Ste­fan, and wel­come to the world Macken­zie!  Tiffany, a Texas-born expat liv­ing in Ger­many, recently gave birth to her first child with­out drugs using the Hyp­noB­a­bies method of self-hypnosis.  She writes a nice sum­mary and review of the Hyp­nob­a­bies pro­gram, which worked very well for her, on her site No Ordinary […]

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Pregnant in Germany

October 17, 2008

Now that I am finally an “Inter­na­tional Mama,” and not just a soon-to-be-mama, I finally feel qual­i­fied to add my 2 cents to the blog! Our girl arrived almost five weeks ago and is already won­der­ing where her sausage and beer are (or at least, that’s how I inter­pret her cry­ing). Hav­ing never been pregnant […]

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