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Last night I laid awake thinking about my midwife experiences here in the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex.  I have bag prada hobo been truly blessed to be apart of such a great team of midwives in the bag prada hobo Dallas and Fort Worth area.  These midwives have sewn so much wisdom and knowledge into me.  When I first came to bag prada hobo DFW I started to work with Gentle Beginnings Birth Center in Hurst.  This birthing center has changed my life.  I have grown to understand more about the holistic side of midwifery and enjoyed using the tremendous resources all around.  

One of those resources is using Chiropractic care during a woman’s pregnancy.  Gentle Beginnings is bag prada hobo located in the same building as our wonderful Chiropractors, doctors Jim Bob and bag prada hobo Cindy Haggarton at Lifetime Family Wellness Center.   They have taught me so much about healing the body through nutrition, herbs and holistic care.  We are a culture of pill poppers.  When we have bag prada hobo a problem we go to the doctor for something to cover up the bag prada hobo symptoms, not heal the cause.  It seems we are bag prada hobo missing something if we are not getting to the route of the bag prada hobo problem.  In this day and age if the symptom persists we will probably just get it removed, such as our gallbladder, appendix or pancreas.  Holistic care is about healing from the inside out.  We can bag prada hobo heal our bodies through better nutrition and a healthier life style.  It is bag prada hobo crazy to me that we are such a developed society, yet we are bag prada hobo suffering from malnutrition from poor eating habits.  If McDonalds and Burger King are our Child’s favorite places to bag prada hobo eat, it is no wonder we have such a high volume of heart disease, diabetes,  obesity, and the list goes on.  I am bag prada hobo sure that some of you are thinking what does this bag prada hobo have to do with Chiropractic care or even being a bag prada hobo midwife.  Well let me tell you, it bag prada hobo really does have so much to do with it.   I used to think Chiropractors were about bone crunching  I soon discovered this is not the case.  It may be bag prada hobo for some of them, but the ones I have met here in the bag prada hobo DFW have been amazing men and women who truly respect the bag prada hobo human body and the need for whole foods to begin the bag prada hobo process of true healing.  I have bag prada hobo seen women who were considered infertile by the medical world get pregnant with a bag prada hobo change in diet and lifestyle.   Children with chronic allergies and bag prada hobo asthma were cured in a matter of days with dietary change, usually taking dairy out and bag prada hobo just feeding them real foods.  Some of you know exactly what I am talking about too!  There is so much more!  The other side that bag prada hobo I have seen is regular Chiropractic adjustments through the pregnancy can bag prada hobo really help to make a woman’s labor quicker and more efficient.  There have bag prada hobo been women in my care that would have ended up with a bag prada hobo C-section if it were for a Chiropractor coming to them in labor to bag prada hobo adjust their pelvis or sacrum.  The DFW is full of great resources!  We need to bag prada hobo take advantage of these and start spreading the word, so that bag prada hobo we can reach a lost generation.  I don’t feel like this is common knowledge now days.  Somehow the truth feels lost.  It seems our grandmothers knew some of the bag prada hobo tricks to a healthy diet and lifestyle that our parents didn’t. 

It is my hope that I can continue to learn new things.  I never want to think I know it all or that I can’t learn something new, for bag prada hobo if I did I would miss out on something that may change a bag prada hobo generation to come.  There are so many aspects to midwifery care.  My goal is bag prada hobo to bring as much awareness and education as I can bag prada hobo to families that I help during their pregnancy and birth.  I want it to be a lifetime investment. 

Thank you bag prada hobo for listening and I hope you will share your knowledge and bag prada hobo experience with the rest of us.  Please leave your comments below.

I was planning a bag prada hobo home birth with my first baby, William, but towards the bag prada hobo end, my midwife was getting nervous about my blood pressure and bag prada hobo swelling and said we’d have to have the baby at the birth center.  I wasn’t thrilled about that prospect, but I agreed.  Then in the last month she started getting really nervous.  My baby was presenting breech and would not turn.  At three weeks to bag prada hobo go we met with Dr. Cummings, the doctor who our midwife used as a bag prada hobo backup, who attempted to externally turn William.  Unfortunately, his attempts were fruitless as were ours – lying upside-down on the bag prada hobo ironing board, daddy reading down low to the baby, trying to bag prada hobo make the baby follow a light, using an icepack to bag prada hobo try to encourage the baby down . . .  Nothing worked!  He stubbornly refused to move into the correct position.  Our midwife said she was uncomfortable attempting a bag prada hobo first-time delivery that was breech, and transferred us to Dr. Cummings’ care.  I went into labor two weeks (to the day) early, showed up to bag prada hobo the hospital dilated only two centimeters, had my water broken, was given Demerol for bag prada hobo pain (which made me unbelievably loopy, uncommunicative, and didn’t get rid of the pain), Pitocin to bag prada hobo encourage contractions after the Demerol slowed down labor, and vwa-la! 21 hours later I delivered our son, William Alexander Croy!  It wasn’t the birth I’d planned or bag prada hobo hoped for, but I do give thanks to God for leading us to bag prada hobo a doctor who was willing to deliver a breech vaginally.  I would never have bag prada hobo had the courage to attempt a vaginal delivery after having a bag prada hobo c-section so I am eternally grateful!   

So. . . . when bag prada hobo I found out I was pregnant again, I wanted to have bag prada hobo a home birth.  At only a bag prada hobo couple of weeks into my pregnancy I started researching midwives in our area.  I found that bag prada hobo there were lots and lots who went from one end of the bag prada hobo midwife spectrum to the other.  Nurse-midwives who bag prada hobo only delivered in hospitals to midwives who encouraged having your bag prada hobo baby with no help outside help at all unless absolutely necessary.  

I met with probably half a dozen ladies.  Some were too far to bag prada hobo agree to a home birth others had a policy where you bag prada hobo got the midwife who was “on duty” when you went into labor.  No one seemed quite what I was hoping for, and I almost didn’t keep my appointment with Sarah Jones at the bag prada hobo Gentle Beginnings Birth Center because I was sure I was going to bag prada hobo be disappointed again.  But afterwards I saw God’s guiding hand in my choice because I decided to bag prada hobo give her a chance and met with her.  She was so wonderful.  She seemed quite young, several years my junior but very confident and bag prada hobo caring, and so very sweet and happy to sit and answer question after question that bag prada hobo I put to her.  The birth center was a bag prada hobo lovely place, and I had a hard time deciding between birthing at home or bag prada hobo there because it was so nice (I decided against because I couldn’t imagine driving for an hour while in labor).  Sarah was wonderful at every one of my prenatal visits and bag prada hobo seemed as excited and full of wonder as I was every time we heard my little son’s heartbeat!  We were even able to bag prada hobo meet with a sonographer at the birth center and see our little guy.  Sarah encouraged me to stay fit and eat well (although I have bag prada hobo to admit the food diary just about drove me nuts – as hard as I tried to “get enough protein” and “drink enough water” I never felt like I was quite doing enough – no offense Sarah. )  Again in the bag prada hobo last few months my blood pressure started rising, and I started to bag prada hobo experience some swelling.  Sarah advised me to take Gotu Kola Complex, and I’m here to tell you, that stuff WORKS!  When I ran out, my swelling got worse very quickly, but when bag prada hobo I started taking it again I saw improvement within a bag prada hobo few hours!  

I had bag prada hobo Braxton-Hicks contractions from about 4 months on out, steadily getting stronger as I went along, but I wasn’t at all concerned because I had bag prada hobo experienced the same thing with William.  My husband, Alex, and I went on a week and a half “baby-moon” in Maine when I was seven months pregnant.  We relaxed and hiked and had some lovely alone time.  Sarah went to bag prada hobo visit her parents in China for a few weeks when I was at 7 ½ months, and bag prada hobo left me in the very compassionate hands of her associate, Christy.  It was excellent to bag prada hobo meet with Christy because she was supposed to be Sarah’s assistant at our birth.  I was very happy to bag prada hobo learn that she was a kindred spirit, and we seemed to bag prada hobo get on wonderfully at our first meeting.  

On Wednesday, December 3, (one week after Thanksgiving, less than a week after my 29^th birthday, and bag prada hobo more than two weeks before my due date of December 18) we decided to go Christmas tree shopping.  Alex said that if we didn’t get it soon I would go and have the baby, and he’d have to decorate it all on his own. So while we decorated our house and bag prada hobo trees with multi-colored Christmas lights and shopped for a tree I experienced some very strong contractions.  I had bag prada hobo to squat down and breathe through several of them in between decorating.  I kept thinking, “maybe this is it!”  But I didn’t want to bag prada hobo jump the gun, and sure enough, the contractions went away with a bag prada hobo warm bath.  Thursday morning, afternoon, and bag prada hobo evening went by without more than the regular Braxton-Hicks, and Friday morning I wasn’t expecting anything spectacular, but just to bag prada hobo be sure, I called up my friend who’d given birth a bag prada hobo few months previously and asked if she might loan me her birth pool.  Several people I know had bag prada hobo used one and said it helped immensely with the pain.  She said sure, and bag prada hobo at about 3:30 in the afternoon she brought it over, and bag prada hobo I helped her unload it into the garage.  Our bigger boys, who bag prada hobo are about the same age, wanted to play, so she stayed for bag prada hobo a bit, and I was enjoying her camaraderie so much that bag prada hobo when her husband called her to let her know he was on his way home, I told her to bag prada hobo tell him to come on over, and I’d fix them dinner.  So he did, and bag prada hobo I did, and when Alex got home we all feasted on quiche and bag prada hobo fresh tomatoes and egg custard!   

After they went home we decided it bag prada hobo was high time to decorate our tree!  So we got to bag prada hobo work on it, and by the time we were done, my back was killing me, and bag prada hobo I spent an hour relaxing and trying to work the kinks out of my back by lying on the bag prada hobo couch.  We went to bag prada hobo bed, but after several hours of trying get comfortable, I decided those weren’t kinks and no amount of relaxing was going to get rid of them.  I woke Alex at 11:00 PM, and told him I thought we’d have a baby tomorrow, and I called Sarah to give her a heads up.  She told me to try to get some sleep and called me if things progressed.  

I tried to rest.  I honestly did! But that baby didn’t have resting on his mind.  The contractions kept getting stronger and bag prada hobo coming very regularly every 10 or so minutes and at about 1 AM to bag prada hobo tell her that I was pretty sure this was it.  She said to bag prada hobo try to rest between contractions and call her when the contractions got to bag prada hobo be about five minutes apart.  At about four I called her again and bag prada hobo told her I was ready for her to come, and she said she would be bag prada hobo on her way as soon as she could get her things together.  I called my sister, Paige, who bag prada hobo lives about an hour away, and told her I was ready for bag prada hobo her to come get William.  At about five Sarah showed up.  She checked my vitals and the baby’s position and said, “yep, you’re in labor.”  Paige showed up and bag prada hobo after I gave him a distracted hug and kiss goodbye she tenderly took Liam off with her.  Sarah was wonderfully calm and bag prada hobo quiet and caring as I paced from our bedroom to the bag prada hobo hall then the kitchen and back to our room.  She would quietly ask if I was having a contraction and time it.  Alex was in the bag prada hobo kitchen putting the birth pool together and getting it hooked up to bag prada hobo the sink.  After a while I couldn’t handle the contractions on my own anymore, and whenever I’d have bag prada hobo one Alex would come to me, and we would kneel down together, and bag prada hobo he would help me breathe through them.  Sarah checked me again sometime in there and bag prada hobo said that I was progressing nicely and in good time.  Christy showed up around at about 7 or 8.  I think I got into the bag prada hobo birth pool for the first time sometime around 9ish, after I got to bag prada hobo about 7 centimeters, and we were pretty sure it wouldn’t slow down labor.  The water felt amazing, and I was still lucid enough, and “modest” enough, that I insisted on putting on my bathing suit.  After a bag prada hobo bit I got out and Alex and I attempted to walk around the bag prada hobo block, and I’m not sure but I don’t think we even made it to the end of the block.  It was really cold, and bag prada hobo I felt conspicuous when I had to kneel down on the bag prada hobo sidewalk to get through my contractions.  After our walk I got back in the bag prada hobo pool, and around ten in the morning Christy started cooking the bag prada hobo after-birth herbs and getting towels and washcloths warm.  I was out of it enough that I didn’t realize it, but Alex later said that bag prada hobo they were expecting the birth fairly soon at that point.  I remember getting a bag prada hobo little annoyed with Sarah when she started talking to me during contractions and bag prada hobo asking her to quit talking.  After the bag prada hobo contraction ended I apologized, and she said not to apologize but to bag prada hobo feel free to tell her what I needed.  If I hadn’t been soaking wet and in pain I would have hugged her.  I needed to hear that just then.  I also remember asking Christy to bag prada hobo take the herbs out because the smell was making me sick.  All this bag prada hobo just made them more sure that baby was going to bag prada hobo arrive soon. 

But then bag prada hobo . . . Sarah started wondering how things were progressing, and bag prada hobo when she checked I was still only at 7 centimeters!  Oh, I thought I would cry.  She and bag prada hobo Christy went off and chatted a bit, and when Sarah came back she said that bag prada hobo at this time they had to tell me that we needed to bag prada hobo make a decision.  I had bag prada hobo progressed so little in the last few hours I think by then bag prada hobo it was about 2 in the afternoon) due to the baby not being fully engaged in the birth canal (the bag prada hobo little stinker had backed up and was trying to come out at an bag prada hobo angle) that I could either: transfer to the hospital (near tears), drink a bag prada hobo bit of wine and try to stop labor and call them back when bag prada hobo I was more rested, or see if I could go to bag prada hobo a chiropractor for an adjustment and get the baby moving.  I really, really did not want to bag prada hobo transfer to the hospital because I was sure I would end up with a bag prada hobo caesarian.  We couldn’t get in touch with a bag prada hobo chiropractor here in our town, and mine was an hour away and bag prada hobo off for the day.  So we opted for the wine and relaxation.  It did help me to bag prada hobo relax, and Alex said I slept pretty hard in between contractions, and bag prada hobo when I woke up they said they had gotten in touch with Dr. Shane (my chiropractor), and bag prada hobo he had agreed to come up and give me an adjustment so long as there was someone here to bag prada hobo watch his little boy who he’d have to bring along!  Praise God for Dr. Shane and his willingness to come!  While he was on his way, I got out of the bag prada hobo tub, and Alex helped me do some exercises to try to bag prada hobo move baby down and get labor going again.  At this point I was at a really low place emotionally.  Sarah came into my room where I was laboring (and suffering so much!)  She knelt beside me, and bag prada hobo encouraged me in her tender way, and then asked so sweetly if she could pray with me.  I said, “Yes.  Please!”  It was such a perfect thing for her to do.  I needed that so much just then.  I had bag prada hobo been praying in my head, but just about all I could manage was, “Dear God, help me!”  She closed her eyes and bag prada hobo held my hand and simply asked the Lord to be bag prada hobo with me, and to give me the strength and courage to bag prada hobo continue and to help baby to move so that I could deliver him.  It was such a bag prada hobo simple prayer, but it was said with such sincerity and bag prada hobo love and compassion.  It really moved me, and bag prada hobo I felt strengthened and encouraged after it.   

Not long after that Dr. Shane arrived, and he was so great!  When I asked how I should be for the adjustment he said, “You just do what you need to, and I’ll work around you.”  So while I stood or kneeled he worked on me a bit.  After a while, Sarah checked me, and said I was progressing again.  Dr. Shane adjusted me (and baby) some more, and after a while said baby was good to go!  Sarah checked the bag prada hobo baby and me, and said I was at nine or bag prada hobo so, and I was really feeling the urge to bear down.  This was a totally new sensation to me.  I had not felt it at all with Liam.  Sarah said there was still a bag prada hobo bit of cervical lip, and I needed to resist pushing if I could.  She told me to bag prada hobo blow out my lips like a horse to help combat the bag prada hobo need to push.  I felt like an idiot (even at that stage), but man, it worked!  She got the bag prada hobo lip out of the way, and for the next 30 minutes or bag prada hobo so I knelt on the bed leaning into and on Alex.  Thank you, Alex, for bag prada hobo you strong arms supporting me and your tender hands holding me, and bag prada hobo you encouraging words whispering in my ear!  Thank you!  Christy and bag prada hobo Sarah kept urging me and encouraging me, and finally after what bag prada hobo seemed a lifetime they said they could see his head.  But then, oh then bag prada hobo . . . Christy said I needed to turn on my side because baby couldn’t get out.  Oh, my word, trying to turn when baby was partly out was just misery!  But I managed, and bag prada hobo Christy held my leg, Sarah encouraged, and Alex held my hand, and bag prada hobo after a while I started to see my baby’s head coming out!  It was terrifying and wonderful all at once.  I pushed and pushed, and thought I was splitting in half.  And finally with Sarah’s hands pulling him, and bag prada hobo my body pushing him with all its might, our baby was brought into this bag prada hobo world!  They laid him on my chest and tried to get him to nurse.  I didn’t care what he or anyone did, I just relaxed.  I guess my whole body relaxed because soon (it was really a couple of hours) Sarah said I really needed to try to deliver the placenta.  I did what I could to encourage the baby to nurse.  Sarah gave me a bag prada hobo couple of shots of pitocin, and then threatened to give me a bag prada hobo catheter.  I didn’t want that, and bag prada hobo I guess it was enough of an incentive to get my brain to bag prada hobo tell my body to get that thing out of me because it bag prada hobo did! Then finally I was in my “mom soup” with my tiny new beautiful son.  He was 8 pounds 5 oz and 21 inches long.  It was the bag prada hobo most wonderful, horrible, exciting, miserable day of my life!  But it was so empowering and inspiring!  It made me so grateful for a wonderful husband and birth helpers!  Thank you, God!

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