Having a Baby During a Pandemic

PREGNANCY Eight months ago, I found out I was pregnant. I had just finished teaching my PalFish students in China (who were ironically taking more classes because they were being impacted by COVID-19 and schools had begun to close). I was about to get my 1 and 2 year olds ready for daycare before IContinue reading “Having a Baby During a Pandemic”

Leila’s Birth Story: A VBAC Birth Story in the Middle of a Pandemic

“She’s still breech.” These were the only words I heard the morning of my scheduled external cephalic version or ecv. “You’ve experienced this before, you know what to expect,” I told myself. And I did which was sort of the terrifying part. My second son just 22 months prior was also breech and after aContinue reading “Leila’s Birth Story: A VBAC Birth Story in the Middle of a Pandemic”