Tag: birth
How to make padsicles for post-partum recovery
March 31, 2017
My friend who became a mom five months before me told me about these padsicles from the All Things Surrogacy blog. I’m really glad I made them before Elyse was born. They are super cold at first, but really soothe “down there” after you give birth. I was so sore, like I had run a marathon […]
Elyse’s birth story
December 7, 2016
Before I was pregnant I wanted to have my baby at a birth center rather than a hospital. Of my friends and family who had hospital births, most of them ended up with c-sections, which I didn’t want if at all possible. I watched the documentary, “The Business of Being Born” and learned about the […]