5k baby! (not the exercise kind)

Yesterday my blog reached over the 5,000 mark for all time hits...I think that is super cool for the short amount of time I've been blogging!  I hope one day I laugh at how "cute" it was that I was so excited to reach 5K, lol

What started out as an attempt to preserve and promote natural birth...ended up morphing into just me promoting the idea of wanting a better birth experience all the way around. I hope I have inspired women to have a voice in their birth and have provided some thought provoking topics and info that help with decisions you might face when having a baby.  

I really like where the blog has headed because the last thing I want is to contribute to the "Mommy Wars" over who's right and wrong...let alone make a Mother feel bad for the choice she made for the birth of her baby. 

The Fam & Da belly

Since starting this blog, it has opened a world of conversations with women when they run into me...telling me their birth stories and what they wished they had known and what they would have done different. They truly find value in what my goal is....to improve the stories of birth that women will share with each other in the future.  

Something that I do want to try to figure out how to improve, as well, is 99% of people's reaction upon hearing the words natural childbirth, midwife, home birth...They make a face...like a scrunched up face and then shake their head and wave their arms like they dont want to hear nothing about that... I really dont appreciate that, 9 times out of 10 when people see this conversation-starter-of-a-baby belly they start asking all kinds of questions,  Who is my Doctor?  What hospital am I going to go to? .... and then have THAT reaction to my answers...its just plain rude...I dont know how to avoid it though...I'm not going to lie just to make them more comfortable, maybe I will just slap them... I mean, I dont make a face when people talk about so-and-so scheduling their induction....even though I have opinions on that....

Back to what I was saying, lol....sorry about the tangent.
This blog has brought me a lot of joy and has made me very proud and I wanted to thank all of you who read it regularly and share it with others...Shout out to the readers in Germany as well, danke schön!!

I like to refer to my readers as the strong, silent type but I am hoping more and more of you feel comfortable commenting...sharing your take on the things I post. 

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