After randomly watching “The Business of Being Born”and “Born in the U.S.A.” early in my pregnancy (my husband and I are Netflix documentary nerds), I became intensely interested in having a natural birth experience. I should note that I wasn’t always so interested in intervention-free birth – quite the contrary. I had always assumed I would go the “normal” route and opt for inducing labor and having an epidural. Heck, even the idea of a C-section sounded nice to my uneducated mind (considering the alternative – pushing a watermelon-sized object out of my hoo-ha!). In fact, you might say I was scared to death of giving birth.

Well, they say that becoming a mom changes everything…and…the prospect of it definitely did for me. [read more...]

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