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Hmm.. I don't think I've ever really paid attention. Perhaps a couple hours?
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Ilford 3200 and Fuji Neopan 1600 @ 3200.
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Depending on the location, I am available for travel. But there would be a fee charged to cover milage and/or travel accommodations. If multiple people booked sessions in a location, I would consider waiving the travel fee. But I haven't worked out the logistics to say for sure what that magic number would be. Email me if you want to talk details.
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Thank you. The size of my dreadlocks are due to sectioning and the texture and thickness of my hair. My maintenance routine is pretty basic. I wash them, palmroll when wet once and a while, and every 6 months or so use a crochet hook to pull stubborn loops back into the dread and a needle or carpet hook to sew in loose hairs. Never used rubber bands other than sectioning BEFORE dreading. Removed them when I backcombed each section of hair. And no wax.
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Second story. The tub held some 180 gallons of water and it was no problem.
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I did a search on Google and found a local midwife. It turned out she was going to be out of town right around my due date, so she referred me to another local midwife. My midwife also had an apprentice, who was there with me from the first prenatal visit to the postpartum visits. My original midwife actually had to go out of town for something very important toward the end of my pregnancy and her back-up midwife took over (along with the apprentice) for the remaining prenatals and was there for the birth. All of the women supporting me during my pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum were and are amazing.
I was not worried about hospital transfer at all, actually. I trusted my midwives and knew that they had enough experience to know if a problem was going to arise that would result in transfer and I would make it there in time if need be. The hospital is 4 minutes from my home if you hit all the red lights. But I knew in my heart I wouldn't need to transfer and was right.
I cannot compare the pain between my hospital birth and homebirth. With Lucas, I was put on Pitocin to augment my labor and Pitocin contractions are much much much much different than natural contractions. By the end, they were coming so fast and hard that I was hyperventilating and was given oxygen. I was also in a horrible position, Lucas was posterior, and it was just nothing like Adelaide's birth. With Adelaide, when she came out, my contractions were still 2 minutes apart - plenty of time to breath and relax and prepare for the next one. I was in a warm tub of water on my knees with the side of the tub supporting my weight. My midwife apprentice was face to face with me the whole time helping me to focus on my breathing, relaxing, and vocalizing. Something that was not there with my hospital birth. It hurt a lot, obviously. Any time you give birth vaginally without an epidural, it's going to hurt. But with my home birth, I was given guidance on how to manage that pain. How to go with the flow of my body and listen to what it was telling me to do. At my own pace. And the thing about birth is that the pain has a purpose. Once that purpose has been fulfilled, the pain is gone. And bonus - my midwives know episiotomies are ridiculous and I didn't even tear with Adelaide but was routinely cut with Lucas. So the healing afterward was different due to that, as well. -
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You wouldn't believe how many people have this as their primary homebirth issue. And the funny part is that it is a non-issue. Truth. We laid a tarp under the birth tub for any dripping and there was no water or otherwise on the carpet. We had a large Hefty bag for soiled towels and multiple waterproof pads on the bed, which also had a waterproof pad under the sheets. All bodily fluids were contained in the tub with me because I was in it when my water broke all through the birth. When I was on the bed with the baby immediately after, the Midwives had already begun pumping the water out of the tub and throwing a load of laundry in the wash for us. They took care of everything. I just got to focus on my new baby. :)
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I am not sure about writing about it on my business blog because the topic of birthing choices can be pretty touchy and I try to avoid opening cans of controversy, particularly online where people can be pretty cruel behind the annonymity of their computer screen. Basically, I'm undecided and will have to think about it and if I do write about it, tread carefully because I have pretty strong opinions about hospital vs home birth.
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Thank you! We are all doing well. Lucas just adores her, too. :)
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One of two things, possibly both. I am enrolled in college right now with a Social Work major and also part of the Interpreter Training Program (ASL). I still have plans to earn my degrees in Sign Language Studies and Social Work but for the time being, my photography business is number one and I am taking classes here and there when I can.
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Nope. The baby has dropped but that's about it.
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Yes, Ma'am. Unless there is a strong urge to call her something else when we meet her.
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Yes and no. Ready to not be pregnant anymore, that much is certain!
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Chocolate and chocolate, LOL. Copious amounts of chocolate.
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Most of my family is relatively close. That's about it.
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Worst habit: I am a stacker, not a filer. I have stacks and stacks of papers and forms and folders and notebooks scattered around my office. What makes it even worse is that there are three dressers with drawer space that I could use for filing and all of them are EMPTY.
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Jaclyn Michele’s Bio
I make photographs.
