I had just attended my first midwife visit at The Addice birth center in January before the world went to chaos with COVID. Having made the decision to use a birth center with my second pregnancy {I had already...
Tiffanie's Story
It was summer of 2010, July 22nd to be exact, I was just over 15 weeks pregnant when I had a follow-up scheduled with my high risk OB for her to just "check my cervix." I went alone...
Making a baby is like baking a cake :: You need the right ingredients in the right order for the right amount of time.
But how the cake comes together also depends on who the bakers are. When you have...
Kelly's Story
How did I become a mother? Wow. Such a simple question with such a complex answer. My story is unlike anything I had ever imaged for myself, and certainly not anything like I had ever read about in...
I am not made of sterner stuff. I cried when I fell down too many times on my first attempt at snowboarding. I over exaggerated a sprained ankle in middle school, requiring me to dramatically exit...only to return with crutches....
My name is Melanie, and this is the story of my son, Witt...
I have wanted to be a mom for as long as I could remember. My husband and I were married for two years when we decided to...
I was overjoyed to learn that I was pregnant for the second time. My first pregnancy ended with a premature baby in the NICU while I recovered from severe preeclampsia, so I spent this pregnancy praying for a different...
Finding out I was pregnant was the best thing that has ever happened to me! It's an emotion you can not explain. I think I took eleven tests I was so shocked! We immediately started thinking of names, nursery...
October 26th marks 13 years. 13 years since I delivered our stillborn son.
To put it mildly, 2004 was not my best year. On June 15, 2004, at 27 years of age, I was newly pregnant, and after a routine...
People often ask what it is like to be a special needs mom. My answer is - there is no one answer. We may all have a lot of things in common, but just like any other mother, raising...
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Cinco de Mayo in Houston: Let’s Fiesta!
Growing up in Texas, I am ashamed to say that I most often associated the holiday of Cinco de Mayo with eating Tex Mex,...
