Before you are pregnant, seeing adorable and well dressed women walk around town with their cute little baby bumps makes it seem like pregnancy will be the best-dressed time of your life - then you actually SHOP for maternity clothes and reality sets in! Unless it's overwhelmingly expensive, maternity wear tends to be drab and shapeless, dowdy lifeless pieces that are definitely chosen for ease of … [Read more...]
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When I was pregnant with my first child, in 1999, I was young and relatively naive about childbirth. I'm not sure what led me towards a midwife - it may have been my mom's serious hippie tendencies, or the stories of my sister's midwife-attended births - but I knew right away that the Midwife Model of Care was what I wanted, although I didn't know that was what it was called. Now, nearly 12 year … [Read more...]