I’ve been avoiding touching on COVID-19 at Breeching Baby. There’s enough out there right now without me adding to the vat. But it was brought to my attention that a healthcare system near where I used to live just updated their visitor policy: no visitors to the NICU, including parents….
Reframing Mom Guilt | It’s Okay to “Fail”
I think I should hate this photo, but I actually love it. My mom took it. She had a photography career before she switched to medicine when I was little, and she still loves to lug around a big DSLR and snap photos of her family. This particular day, we…
5 Awesome Mom Hacks | Part 1
Get ready for the first in a series of Mom Hacks! These are tips and tricks that I’ve picked up from living day-to-day mom life that can help you, too. I’ll call these “mom hacks” because I mostly write to moms, but anybody can use these, be it dads, grandparents,…
My NICU Story
I never expected my baby would be in the NICU. I mostly thought it was premature babies who require the neonatal intensive care unit. After 37 weeks, I thought we were clear of this possibility. It never occurred to me there may be other reasons for needing such an intense…
Entrusting Our Children to the One Who Sees | Christian Corner
This is a piece that I wrote back when I was still pregnant with my daughter. I considered fitting its perspective to the present, but I thought it would remain more powerful if I kept it in its original form, to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve peace even…
My Breech Birth Story
I was 35 weeks pregnant when my mom began to pester me nearly every time she called. Why haven’t they done an ultrasound recently? Don’t they need to know how big she is? How do they know she’ll fit? She had a nagging feeling that because I’m so tall, I…
Preparing for Labor by Getting to Know Yourself
Preparing for labor? There’s more to do than packing your hospital bags and learning Lamaze! One of the best ways you can get ready to have a baby—on top of writing a birth plan, taking a class, and researching hospital policy—is to get to know yourself as intimately as possible….
6 Tips for Packing Your Hospital Bag
How you choose to give birth may be a very personal choice, but so is what you decide to pack in your hospital bag for the big day! This post isn’t a checklist for what you need to bring, because everyone is different and what worked for me may not…
Forming Emergency Birth Plans…then Letting Go
Childbirth can be intimidating, am I right? It seems like our brains come up with so many what if scenarios—even before we read other women’s emergency birth stories online or endure random strangers piling on other worries that keep us up at night. What if I don’t make it to…
Visitors After Birth | 4 Things to Consider Before Making Plans
It’s easy for things to go wrong when it comes to hospital visitors after birth, because emotions run high and having a baby brings people together in odd ways that daily life doesn’t, just like with weddings. Plus, things rarely go the way we expect them to, and that can…