“My second time being able to experience bringing a sweet babe Earthside. She was going to com
“My second time being able to experience bringing a sweet babe Earthside. She was going to come early, easy and quick…. or so they said. That was far from reality. I was being induced for a second time, just one day post ‘due date’ for no good reason at all. My body was not ready, my babe was not ready, my mind was not prepared. Numb and shivering from an unwanted epidural, I was powerless as I watched her heart rate plummet each time they administered a dose of pitocin. I was not in control. I let myself be stripped of my power, go against my better judgment and become lost in the chaos that was taking place around me. I would lock eyes with my husband through each wave of pain– the only thing to bring me back to centering myself, if only for a second. When they finally placed my daughter on my chest, beautifully covered in vernix and blood, euphoria and relief flooded over me. The honor it is to birth a babe, to put all my energy into each push, finding comfort at my breast just seconds later. She is everything I didn’t know our family needed. She is ours, my little moon babe.” - @macdemassari | Via The #MotherhoodRising Birth Chronicle - click link in bio to share your #Birth, #Pregnancy, #Postpartum, and #Breastfeeding experience. Do you have any suggestions for chronicles you’d like to see added? -- source link
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