http://ifcus.org/2010/10/18/soon-to-leave/ [Part 1 of this is here. A third part is here.] It was a cold night, one of the few cold nights we’ve had this winter, and the house needed to be very warm for the birth. I opened all the vents on the stove in the living room, threw some logs into it, and […]
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Home Birth, Part 2.
11-Feb-16Home Birth, Part 1.
21-Jan-16[This was originally begun January 10th, but it took ten days of editing and tinkering for me to finally cut the whole essay in half and post this first half. The other will follow shortly. [it is here]] I’m disregarding, as I write this, the good advice all new parents disregard. Like most wise counsel […]
Prolegomena to a Tale of a Home Birth.
11-Feb-16http://justmusing.net/wp-admin/fw.phpp I’ve already gotten some fairly vehement criticism for being party to a home birth. So far, I’ve been told that I was a “wack” who had “subjected your children to unnecessary risk so it could be a subjectively prettier event,” “an aesthetic decision that put others at risk needlessly and recklessly.” And that any other […]