Tag: birth (story)ies

I’ve always enjoyed thinking back to the each girl’s birth, and the perspective that a few birthdays later casts onto them.  Here are E’s and F’s.  I can read them over and over again.

We are now one month postpartum, and have spent the majority of the past month in and out of labs and doctor’s offices and drive-through pharmacy lines. The baby has emerged on the better side of these obstacles and her GI system is starting to work on its own now without outside help. Watching her…

Transition is the word that the books use to describe that final stage of labor just prior to the delivery. The word is sufficient, I suppose, in describing the deliberate change of pace from the earlier work to the point that a person’s body is actually capable of turning loose the baby within. But it…