A Natural Scientist

Bug, as you may remember, was born at a free-standing birth center, in a tub, with midwives.  The first time, I wanted to trust my medical p...

I reserved our public library's copy of this book because the author is a friend of a friend, who told me I might like it.  Here's t...

7:30 AM: My contractions slow down to every ten minutes again. "Pitocin!" the nurse chirps, and hangs a bag. I don't care. ...

4:00 AM: Someone comes and gives me narcotics.  I immediately feel a little high. 4:30 AM: I get into the tub to hang out.  My contraction...

When Bug was born, I was at a birth center with a couple midwives and a tub and one (1) ibuprofen.  I don't know why I feel the need to ...

I have just been traumatized by hearing yet another birth story from a woman in her seventies.  All the ones in my vicinity feel the need to...

Q: Am I nauseous, in pain, and miserable because BABY is imminent, or... not, waaaah? Q: Why is my toddler suddenly peeing in his pants al...

And without even pictures to amuse you, because my camera is giving up the ghost. (I dropped it on a tile floor; strangely, it hasn't be...

Today we toured the Newly!  Renovated!  Hospital Birth Center!  I suppose... it used to be more depressing. I guess they're trying.  B...

The midwives fish the placenta out of the birth tub and show it to me.  It looks like a cooked jellyfish mated with a large steak.  "Do...

I am having back labor, because the baby is posterior.  I am sitting in the tub, in a great deal of pain.  My mother is somewhere in the roo...

I am in the neuro-ophthalmologist's office , waiting to be squeezed in between 80-year-olds with cataracts.  People almost never have ne...

The baby's been born.  I'm laying in bed with him, and the midwife asks, " How's your vision ?" "I can see my h...

I once promised Belle I wouldn't post a birth story (plus, it's pretty boring: I went into labor, eight hours later my kid came out,...