Chris and Jenni

How’s that for a title? Yes it’s true, our little baby is supposedly nine inches, crown of the head to his little rump! Isn’t that amazing? I put a measuring tape across my belly yesterday so the kids can visually see how big our little sibling is getting and they are all so amazed at […]

Rain Garden, a mommy blog I read, wrote an interesting article on politics and homebirths. Did you know that 13 of our wonderful states do not allow homebirths, in fact they prosecute and jail the midwives who perform them? I am appalled! Take a look, it’s a great article.

I finished writing the Birth Story of our daughter Caitriona Jean Burns! What a miracle new life is! If you would like to read about the miracle of our daughter’s birth you are welcome to, please be aware that it is a long and detailed story and may include some details of labor and birth […]

I think I’m about half way there, but now all of my children are awake (they were all sleeping when I started writing it), and for some reason my concentration is not all that great when there are four children four and under running around me :) Today was my first day manning the roost […]

I am sitting in my chair, my littlest is sleeping on the couch next to me, my three little (older) ones are all asleep in their beds, my husband just left for work about an hour ago after taking care of us all morning, and my mother is mopping my desperate dining room floor. How […]

As well as posts on our blog throughout the birth you can also check my Twitter page that I will update as I can from my cell phone via text messages. This will be fun, we are so excited to meet this baby. It is very similar to Guenna’s labor so far, she was born […]

Well it’s definitely too early to say but I’ve been having some signs tonight that we could be having this baby sooner than later. I’ve been having sporatic contractions about 10-15 minutes apart since about 7:00 along with some other signs but who knows they could all go away as soon as I lie down. […]

Tonight I took Eamon to the doctor. Since Guenna’s hand was burned a few weeks ago, our children between them have had 10 doctor’s appointments! I would say we have had our share for the month of March, and we’re really hoping that April turns out to be a doctor-free month, except for the new […]

I know there are a lot of people checking our website every day simply because they want to know if we have had the baby yet :) Thank you for not calling (although most of you don’t have my phone number)to ask “so has labor started yet?” I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced that […]

A great way to not gain a bunch of weight the last few weeks of your pregnancy is to have a complete system clean-out once a week a couple days before your midwife appointment. But I wouldn’t recommend it though, it’s not very fun.
Today was almost an exact replay of last Tuesday. I thought I […]

I finished two sewing projects today! I made a curtain for our bedroom (I realized the other day that I am going to be laboring in our bedroom and someone will be taking pictures before/after the birth and I have a sheet covering our window! How unromantic! No more sheet, but I do need to […]

Chris doesn’t usually get sick. In fact he is almost always the last to get sick, if he does get sick. Yesterday he started to feel like he was fighting that cold I had last week, and today he’s pretty sure it’s got him :( I’m really hoping and praying that he wont get it […]

I gave birth to our first son on March 26, 2003 at our midwife’s birhting center in her home and it was wonderful not having to have him in a hospital.I gave birth to our second son on October 17, 2004 in our home and this was even better! I would cry if I […]