I just had to whip this up after giving birth for a second time - naturally. During both of my labors I had doctors at some point say to me this after I rejected offers of drugs, “No one get’s a medal for doing it naturally”
No.
No one gets a medal for it but perhaps they should.
Thus I’ve created this Pink Heart Medal of Honor for all women who decided to go natural.
Don’t worry mamas it’s one in a series of medals I plan on creating celebrating all the ways women bring babies in to this world, none of them gets a medal either but each labor story is unique and certainly  read more »

I’ll tell my labor story and try not to get too wordy on ya like I normally do.

September 2nd, 2:30am I wake up for no reason, I’m laying there feeling fine, wondering why I’m awake when *gush* “OH!” hurray I think I know that familiar feeling. I go to the bathroom, grab a pad and turn the lights on (which I normally wouldn’t do) my husband gets up because he knows something must be up. “This is it I think” we get ready, he’s a little too calm, he makes coffee, I get annoyed. “Pack up the car!”

All the necessary phone calls are made, daughter is sent to best friends house, everything seems to go smoothly despite it being the middle of the night. We go to the hospital where there’s a great nurse helping us out and she confirms that it’s amniotic fluid so we think hurray! We assume in just a few short hours it will be baby-time and all will be well. That’s how it went with our first daughter, 7hrs after water broke there was a precious baby in our arms.  read more »