Book Review: Birthing From Within

Baby Bumps and Blessings The Making of a Mindful Maternity   Birthing from Within by Pam England and Rob Horowitz was recommended to me by a book club friend, who said this book inspired her to successfully have a VBAC.  I can totally see why!  It is a great resource for anyone who wants to [...]

Book Review: A Wise Birth

Baby Bumps and Blessings The Making of a Mindful Maternity As I continue to immerse myself in birthing books, I’m finishing up A Wise Birth by Armstrong and Feldman (trying to finish it before it is due back at the library).  This book doesn’t give strategies for birth, but it does provide insight on the [...]

Book Review: A Midwife’s Story

Baby Bumps and Blessings: The Making of a Mindful Maternity To prepare for baby number two I’ve been reading child birth books and I just finished A Midwife’s Story by Penny Armstrong and Sheryl Feldman.  The book shares Armstrong’s journey to becoming a midwife to Amish women.  The women’s stories are amazing to me, though [...]

Q&A with the authors of Good Enough is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood

I recently had the opportunity to read, Good Enough Is the New Perfect:  Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood by Becky Beaupre Gillespie and Hollee Schwartz Temple.  When I started reading I struggled to relate to the women in the book because I don’t consider myself a “high powered” career women such as a [...]