I can completely sympathize with the mom in this story. These days, I don’t have to tell anybody that I have triplets. If I mention it, it’s because I am at that moment prepared to discuss them, to answer questions and generally engage in conversation about them. When they were babies, though, it was never […]
Category Archives: Baby Things
The Miracle of Birth
There was always that moment after having a new baby when I first took that baby out in public, a few days after birth or coming home. Whether it was one baby or three, whether it was the first or the sixth, those moments share some things. I was always a wreck. Trying to cope […]
Helpless
Something happened yesterday to somebody I don’t even personally know, really. I never met her, just her boyfriend. It’s something that happens every day, to millions of women, almost 1/3 of all mothers today in fact. Most people don’t consider that a big deal. But just the knowledge that it happened, the sight of the […]
Ocean Gypsy
While I was pregnant with the triplets, Brian and I ran across somebody I hadn’t seen since my college days in Denton. His handle in college was Angel, but his name was David. Of all things, I saw him leaving as we were standing outside the theater in Austin. I hailed him, and we started […]
Kender — another perfect VBA2C, unassisted attended homebirth
July 22, 2008 — Kender Allyn Hunt Kender was a surprise baby. Not like a birth control failure surprise, more like a “we got lazy with the birth control” surprise…but unplanned, nevertheless. That’s how he got his name. Kender love to play tricks on people, and we like to say he tricked us into letting […]
Jarod — a perfect unassisted birth center VBA2C
February 12, 2006 — Jarod DeMar Hunt It took me a long time to really process my second c-section. At first, I was totally okay with it, because when the call was made I was at the end of my rope and there was no other option. But when I broached the subject of another […]
My Birth Plan
This is the birth plan I have submitted to my birth center midwives: It is difficult for me to write too much about how I want this birth to go. I don’t want to be too specific, like saying “I want to birth in the water,” because then I’ll feel trapped by those statements if […]
Liam — an attempted HBAC transported to an emergency repeat c-section for maternal exhaustion and CPD
October 15, 2002 — Liam Trevor Hunt When I got pregnant the second time, I wasn’t even trying. We’d been trying to conceive for months, but illness had put us off it that month. But we got pregnant anyway, and I was due on the triplets’ birthday! We still believe he was the lost number […]
Brenden, Tamara, and Caitlin — part 2
October 12, 2009 — Brenden Connor Hunt, Tamara Elayne Hunt, Caitlin Alyssa Hunt It was starting to look like we might get the full 48 hours on the steroids, maybe even more. Then my water broke. I rolled over to go to the bathroom and felt a bit of a gush, and felt it again […]
Brenden, Tamara, and Caitlin — part 1 — an emergency c-section at 26 weeks after preterm labor and PPROM
All night Sunday night I tried to sleep, but I was woken up every seven minutes by these horrendous contractions. The pain level just kept getting worse and worse. By six o’clock in the morning, I had pretty much had enough. I got my mother to fix me something for breakfast, because they never let […]