Today we are celebrating your second birthday. Although you won’t actually be two till Monday, two years ago today, is the day that my labor started at three in the afternoon. Ten hours later, you were born. I cannot say it enough, but the moment I birthed you, the moment I held you in my arms was one of the most awe-inspiring, sacred moments of my life. Becoming a mother, or rather, becoming your mother has forged in my heart a deeper love for others, for your Dad, for myself and of course for you. Did you know that your birth is what placed me on the path to becoming a doula? I honestly can say, that if it weren’t for you I would not have found this calling. So thanks for that little one. Continue reading
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I am Joy, a happily married mother of two waterbirthed babies. I am a doula and a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, who worked as a midwife's assistant at a freestanding birth center in TX. As of 2015, I'm a full-time nursing student who teaches childbirth classes at Park Ridge Health, The Baby Place, in Hendersonville, NC. I love serving laboring moms and I enjoy teaching birth education. I use this blog to write about it all - my life, my children, and my passion of all things childbirth.
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