{"id":9182,"date":"2016-03-07T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T13:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2016-04-07T12:47:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:47:53","slug":"birth-childs-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/07\/birth-childs-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Through a Child’s Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Sugarplum was born, my water broke at 3:30 in the morning. \u00a0I called the midwives and even though I wasn’t having strong contractions, I’d been having regular contractions for hours so they told me to come in right away since it was my 2nd baby and I’d “probably go fast” (unfortunately we didn’t meet her for another 21 hours<\/a>!) \u00a0My cousin had come in to town to stay with Honeybun and I quietly woke her to tell her we were going to the hospital before we quietly slipped off into the night (after I installed the car seat<\/a>, of course.)<\/p>\n

Honeybun and my cousin played the day away, anxiously awaiting the news that the baby was here. \u00a0They went to the park and to lunch. \u00a0Honeybun had her nap and dinner. \u00a0And at bedtime, Sugarplum still wasn’t around so Honeybun went to bed. \u00a0At about 11:30 p.m., hubby called to have my cousin wake up Honeybun to bring her to meet the baby that was on her way.<\/p>\n

They showed up about a half hour after Sugarplum’s arrival and it was magical. \u00a0Seeing my big girl gaze in awe at her baby sister was amazing and I snuggled my sweet Honeybun close while Sugarplum was weighed and measured. \u00a0Some people think I was crazy for waking her up in the middle of the night \u00a0to come but I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way, she needed to be a part of our growing family.<\/p>\n

And some people thought it was even crazier when I had\u00a0Doodle almost three years ago that I wanted my daughter’s there to see it and be a part of it. \u00a0I had planned a homebirth<\/a> from the beginning and despite some concerns through the second trimester<\/a>, things worked out for me to have my sweet boy at home<\/a> and I couldn’t imagine not having my girls there<\/a> and while I had grandiose visions of their roles<\/a> in the birth that didn’t work out, they were still there to see our first glimpses of his sweet face and we all treasure those moments.\"girls<\/p>\n

And with the birth of Pipsqueak, I again wanted my girls there. \u00a0But this time, we took it a step farther and rather than having them be mere spectators, we let them be archivers. \u00a0We gave each girl one of our older digital cameras in order to document the arrival of our latest addition.<\/p>\n

The cameras are old, the lighting was bad but the moments my daughters captured are priceless. \u00a0They managed to capture moments the rest of us missed and these pictures have already become family treasures.<\/h2>\n

This is Birth Through a Child’s Lens:<\/h2>\n

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When Sugarplum was born, my water broke at 3:30 in the morning. \u00a0I called the midwives and even though I wasn’t having strong contractions, I’d been having regular contractions for hours so they told me to come in right away since it was my 2nd baby and I’d “probably go fast” (unfortunately we didn’t meet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[46,100,36],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baby-business","category-family-life","tag-birth","tag-homebirth","tag-siblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10471,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions\/10471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}