husband/headship

My husband got home from his first graveyard shift a couple of hours ago.  He worked from 2:30 yesterday afternoon until 6:30 this morning.  I am so thankful to be married to this man!  As some of you may know my part time job with WIC was cut last week, I was immediately concerned about what we would do to make up this income.  Though small, my income was needed for our family.  I went to craigslist to start looking for something I could do and still be with my children.  I was informed of the cut Monday.  On Tuesday my husband told me "you don't nee

I am a Christian, wife to Norm and mother to four: Glen (5), Tasha (3), Jamie, and baby Lorelai. It was an honor to be asked to work with Corrrine and the other ladies in the Pinkpeas family. Pinkpeas is just the right home for some of my many interests. We are a homebirthing/waterbirthing family. I am a La Leche League Leader.

Wednesday, September 10th at about 1 am I awoke with contractions that made it hard to sleep.  By 1:30 am I needed to be out of bed.  I wandered around, tried to work on a simple writing project, thought about making a snack, took a shower, tried every conceivable chair, couch, bed, bathroom position.  By 5:50 am I was losing my ability to cope by myself and awoke my husband.  I had him gather all of the things I thought I would be able to do in labor.  When all of my list of things were gathered, we were about to check to see if it was time to call the ladies who w

Our daughter Isabela was born September 14, 2004. Isabela was born in the hospital. We had the best hospital birth experience one could pray to have and we will never do it again God willing! I like to say that we really just paid to rent the room at the hospital, they left us alone for the most part which is exactly what we wanted. For that money we could have had her at the Four Seasons!

So, here is Liliana's birth story as written by my amazing wonderful midwife Corrine, I love hearing it from your perspective! I will preface it by saying this was our first homebirth, our amazing daughter Isabela was born naturally in the hospital. My husband will say that the most powerful aspect of our homebirth as compared with our hospital birth was how empowered we were as parents.