A lifestyle blog by Lauren Hartmann
The birth story of our third child little Miss Alice could not have been more different than the birth stories of her big sister and brother. Even though she’s pretty new around here, she is already showing us that she is going to be a girl who blazes her own trail and does things her […]
*Note: I already published this post over at Babble last week, but I wanted the information to live here permanently on my blog as well. Last month I wrote a post sharing all of my pregnancy essentials, and now with birth and postpartum in the not-so-far-away distance (like I may actually have a baby by the […]
The other day a friend of mine posted a link to this Cosmo article in which two women were interviewed about what it’s really like to give birth (and go through pregnancy/postpartum ish) and I thought it was an interesting read, so I decided to take their questions and answer them myself, since obviously you’ve all […]
If you were to ask me what the most important factor in having a natural birth is, I would tell you that it’s getting rid of fear. {Fern helping out at my 34 week midwife appointment} When you’re pregnant there is one common theme when it comes to the advice others will bestow on you […]
One of my friends Brynn has a husband who is an amazing videographer (check out some of his work here) and after she posted the beautiful video he made of her son River’s birth and meeting his big sister for the first time I immediately asked if I could share it. It’s seriously stunning and […]
If you’ve been following along with the birth story series here on my blog, you’ll know how much I love natural birth. I think it’s beautiful and wonderfully empowering. That said, not all births go the way we want them to. Each baby and each birth is unique and different. Today’s birth story is a beautifully […]
