3rd Trimester

At 11 days overdue, I was ready to try anything to naturally induce labor. Here's Mia's birth story and my first birthing center experience.

Mia’s Birth Story: 11 Days Overdue & First Birth with a Midwife

By Emily | Lil Mama Bear Blog3rd Trimester, All, Archives, Baby, Labor+Delivery, Lil Mama, Newborns, PregnancyNo Comments

If you haven't checked my post on my pregnancy, you can read it here. In that post, I describe when I found out I was pregnant, how I had a lot of bleeding at 5 weeks, and our reaction at the anatomy scan ultrasound. Amelia's birth was...a long time coming,...

My Fourth Pregnancy: Subchorionic Hemorrhage at 6 Weeks

By Emily | Lil Mama Bear Blog1st Trimester, 3rd Trimester, Archives, Baby, Complications, PregnancyNo Comments

I don't enjoy being pregnant. None of my pregnancies would I describe as easy or smooth - with Genny, she had a cystic hygroma at 12 weeks gestation; with Nora, I suffered recurring UTI's; and in between those two pregnancies, we lost a baby at 6 weeks. My pregnancy with...

Nora’s Birth Story

By Emily | Lil Mama Bear Blog3rd Trimester, All, Baby, Labor+Delivery, Lil Mama, Pregnancy4 Comments

From the beginning of this pregnancy, I kept thinking to myself that the second child comes easier. Somewhere along the way, I changed that to “earlier” in my mind. Maybe that is not always true, but I had to believe that it would be. Because pregnancy and me aren’t the...

Mia’s Birth Story: 11 Days Overdue & First Birth with a Midwife

My Fourth Pregnancy: Subchorionic Hemorrhage at 6 Weeks

Nora’s Birth Story

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