Rachel had her first baby via a forceps delivery.  A few days later, the resulting third degree tear became infected.  After months of unsuccessful treatment, she finally had surgery, and was medically cleared at 6 months postpartum.&...

Brianna’s first baby had jaundice, and she describes her challenges feeding in the hospital while having to keep him under the lights.  She and her husband were living with her parents after her first birth, and she describes her postpartu...

Parvati was diagnosed with placenta previa 20 weeks into her pregnancy.  She was put on bedrest at 26 weeks, and then had a C-section at 36 weeks.  She describes how her physical recovery was affected by her weeks of bedrest.  Sh...

Lauren found out that she had LFS just days before finding out that she was pregnant with her daughter Josie.  After a planned home birth turned hospital induction due to IUGR, she describes her early weeks postpartum, including latch issu...

After a non-medicated birth, Elizabeth had to go to the OR and have a spinal placed to have her “3.75” degree tear repaired.  She dealt with low supply, likely due to IGT, and describes her journey of triple feeding and power pumping and t...