by Jessica Austin
December 11, 2012

I am a pretty expressive person. Those of you who read my blog posts regularly probably already have a sense of this! In person, I often talk with my hands and seem to (apparently) amuse my friends with pronounced facial expressions. As a result, my birth friends have taken up creating captions for facebook photos [...]
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by Jessica Austin
June 3, 2012

I don’t mean the “C” word you’re probably thinking of. For me, the dreaded “C” stands for the first word in “Cervical Exam”. I’m going to be completely honest and opinionated about this. I really dislike cervical exams during birth. Watching a birthing woman get out of her rhythm and onto her back so her health [...]
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