by Andrea Owen | Nov 17, 2009 | Guest post, Motherhood, Pregnancy
Todays post is written by Pamela Candelaria. She and I have become “cyber-friends” through a VBAC support group and Pamela herself has had 3 VBAC's!! Please enjoy this beautiful ode to motherhood. Thanks to Pam for letting me re-post this. Every time I've...
by Andrea Owen | Sep 26, 2009 | Empowering Women, Motherhood, Pregnancy
September 15th, 2009 was by far the most adventurous day of my life. If you've read the birth story of my son, you'll hopefully understand my thoughts and feelings concerning the upcoming birth of my daughter. I was in personal predicament, being pulled in two...
by Andrea Owen | Sep 4, 2009 | Motherhood, Pregnancy
I've been putting off writing part 2 to this trilogy of my birth stories, only because the last couple of weeks has not turned out exactly like I had planned it. I'm not sure what I was thinking; pregnancy and birth can never be planned, many times there are bumps in...
by Andrea Owen | Aug 27, 2009 | Empowering Women, Motherhood, Pregnancy
I'm compelled to write my son's birth story for two reasons. One, I've never documented it, and since he just turned 2 last week I know the detailed memories will fade soon. Secondly, I have high hopes that my next child's birth in a few weeks will be different and I...
by Andrea Owen | Aug 21, 2009 | Body image, Motherhood, Pregnancy
In the past few months I've talked a lot about eating disorders and my own struggle with disordered eating and exercise. I've had to really think about my relationship with food and quite honestly, I thought it was a crock that people even had a “relationship...
by Andrea Owen | Aug 14, 2009 | Body image, Motherhood
I recently read an article about Miley Cyrus' “pretend pole dancing” at the Teen Choice Awards. Miley is 16 years old. I finally saw the video of the performance and although it wasn't as bad as I originally thought, but as a mother, I definitely raised an...
