All posts tagged: 9 min read

Eli’s Birth Story

I was thirty nine weeks and four days pregnant when I woke up at 11pm with regular enough contractions to start timing them. A half hour later I woke up my husband, Ravi, and said, “Um…soooo…I think I’m in labor.” I felt bad waking him since I knew he had only gone to bed a

An Open Letter to My Doctor: The Heartbroken Mother

Four years ago the unthinkable happened, I was half way through my 4th sustained pregnancy and told, in a manner one would tell you the weather, I could abort or have my labor induced. That very night. I had some bleeding that brought me to the L & D floor, 20 minutes of monitoring and