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[one4theroad]

Sneak preview of Danica's photo shoot with Ellen Dykstra:  CLICK

Also, for anyone not on my Facebook, here is my current status message...  Because everyone seems to want to know, yes, I gave birth with no epidural or pain meds.  It was intense, but nothing I wasn't prepared for.  Thanks to everyone who thought I couldn't do it and/or told me birth

Comments

[razzing]

She is soo beautiful! I am so glad you had the birthing experience you wanted. Lots of love to all of you!

[sunnycrittenden]

People actually said that to you? What the fuck? Our bodies are MADE to have babies that way (although sometimes it doesn't work out for everyone but...there are other issues there...)!

Man, now I feel like I should have given you my birth stories: BIRTH WAS AWESOME!

If I could skip the pregnancy bit and just do the birth part, I'd probably have 10 kids. For me, both times, it was just sort of...transcendental, if that makes any sense at all. When those babies came out of me, I felt more proud and accomplished than I ever had before and ever will again.

Anyway, I'll shut up now. I just can't even believe people would tell you that you couldn't do it without all that shit. That's just ieflqvblucyqvc.

[one4theroad]

So many women who haven't had natural births feel the need to get defensive when they find out another woman is wanting to have one. They get this "been there done that" attitude and assume that the other woman has no idea what she's in for.
Even though not everything went as planned and my labor was probably more intense than many (though I have no basis for comparison), I never felt anything that was unexpected and I never felt unprepared or unable to handle any of it.
A lot of people underestimated me by assuming I was as ill-prepared as they had been when they went into labor.

[sunnycrittenden]

That is so fucked up to me. Like, "cannot even comprehend" kinda fucked up. I think if someone would have said that shit to me, especially with the whole being pregnant thing, they'd soon be spitting out their own teeth.

No one in my family has ever had a c-section or an epidural, unless you count my step-mom who's not related to me, was 41 when she was pregnant with her first child and had gestational diabetes. Thus, no one would even fathom saying something like that to a pregnant woman. I mean, natural is just how you plan on doing things until/unless it's too dangerous not to. To assume otherwise is just...beyond fucked up.

I'm glad you had a positive birth experience, that's awesome. :o)

[sunnycrittenden]

Also, those pictures are absolutely gorgeous.