Look what I did this weekend!!!

http://www.waitingwithyou.com/1/post/2013/01/kylas-birth.html

(everything shared with lots and lots of permission!) if you enjoyed it, feel free to repost, lj or fb or both. :-)

Please be honest and let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions to make anything better.

Waiting with you

Also, if someone is willing to fill out the contact me form located here at Suzanne DeSelms, birth doula just so I can make sure it works. Its OK to make up answers, though I'd prefer if you let me know who you are so I ( Read more... )

I missed you internetz, but I was spending time with my family!!!! Wow ( Read more... )

My mom told Joe that he could have $20 to go get his hair cut if he did two homework assignments. (He's about seven behind.) If they were done by the time she left this morning, she'd give him the $20, but otherwise she was giving it to me, and I had to check to see if he did two of them before he could have the money ( Read more... )

Happy last day of working to me

Happy last day of working to me.

Happy last day of working FOREVER!Happy last day of working to me ( Read more... )

I have no idea why I have that song stuck in my head - I haven't heard it in years - but its been floating around all morning. Things are strangely quiet on lj today, no updates this morning from people who usualy write daily, no updates in more than a week from people who usualy write at least weekly ... it's like a ghost town. Somehow, it feels ( Read more... )

My final project, the one I was touting being almost done with yesterday (ha ha ha) is our health on the harbor special section. I had wanted to do a story on a doula (found out the only one here is now and OB nurse) and then I found a woman who does hypnobirths, but she never called me back. Time was seriouslly running out, so I just went the easy ( Read more... )

From Suzanne: storm homebith. - Hoquiam couple had planned to have their baby at home with a midwife. But when the storm prevented the midwife from attending, dad delivered the baby himself. Baby was born on Sunday, and mom and baby are doing fine. photos from Kathy ( Read more... )

This was in my e-mail inbox today. I almost deleted it too, because it looked like spam, but I'm glad I decided to check. I feel a whole lot better than I have in weeks, if not months ( Read more... )

So I'm a teensy bit scared to post this because my blog is on the search engines and I know that they latch on to certain keywords ... but I'm really happy about this story (not claiming it's well-written or anything -- it's not -- but just that I'm glad that I got to write it for our paper at all.) It's an important subject (more so than I even ( Read more... )