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Now that the children are all asleep and the house is quiet, I’ll try to put together a few thoughts and details on the baby’s birth while [...]

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After our 4th daughter was born in May of ‘98, we toyed with the idea of spacing our children a bit more - so far they had been arriving in God’s timing (don’t they all? silly us!) but we considered “tampering” with the timing a bit. With Y2K looming large and [...]

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With another round of labor and delivery fast approaching, I’ve been mentally reviewing my past labors.
All 8 have been at home, with a midwife.
I have a lot of Braxton-Hicks contractions, so I’m never really sure when labor starts. At some point I usually just comment to hubby, “I’ve think I’ve been having contractions for 6 [...]

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Every time I feel our baby kick inside me, I say a short “thank you” to God. I want to stroke my belly, smile and say to the baby, “Hi! You’re still there!” This attitude has a lot to do with Sarah.
As I approach the end of this pregnancy, little Sarah has been much on [...]

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We have all our children at home. By God’s grace, this has been possible every time. My labors are usually textbook-typical and uneventful, so we don’t have a problem with the fact that our midwives always seem to live an hour or more from our home.
But #6 was a little different. After 5 previous homebirths, [...]

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