Shanspirations

When we went on vacation in May, my father (whom we were visiting) urged me to consider weight lifting for my back pain. I knew he had cured his own mid-back pain many years ago, but since I’ve tried strength training many times over the years, I had given up, and besides, with having [...]

I planned to write several posts on ideas for improving morning/pregnancy sickness. Here’s installment #2. (for the first post, see here.)
I was intending to include an excerpt from my copy of Naturally Healthy Pregnancy by Shonda Parker, but try as I might I cannot find it right now. I had it set aside and it [...]

Here is some of the information I plan to turn to if I find myself in the situation of being very ill during pregnancy again! I don’t know if these ideas will work, but I felt I needed to learn all I could after how difficult my pregnancy with Anna was and it seems like [...]

Back in March I wrote my “pre-birth” story. Now I want to write about the events of Anna’s birth that I didn’t already share there.
Like so many women, I felt desparate for my baby to come that last week. I knew to expect this feeling, but it was amazing, after patiently going through [...]

I’ve been thinking about writing my birth story. When I was pregnant, I always wanted to be able to write one after my baby was born, but in the end, though Anna is 19 months old now, it has taken me a long time to work through my feelings about what happened to me. In [...]