Oct 15, 2018 | Events, San Antonio
There we were, fashionista friends glammed up for a night on the town in full-length gowns. Naturally, we were starving. But what’s a girl to do when there is nary an hor d’oeuvre in sight? Were we going to be the cliche style mavens, wasting away to...
Jul 8, 2015 | Issa Brooke, Maternity, Motherhood, Under the Influence
Of all the differences between Cora’s birth and Issa’s birth, one of the best changes was adding a birth playlist for Issa’s home birth. I thought it might feel a little forced to have the candles flickering, peaceful music playing, and dim lights,...
Apr 3, 2015 | Maternity, Motherhood
{The last photo of me pregnant, right after our walk trying to send myself into labor on March 14th. Read on to find out if it worked! 🙂 } Well, it took me over two years to write Cora’s birth story (read that here and here if you haven’t already), so...
Oct 22, 2014 | Maternity, Motherhood, San Antonio
If you’ve read Cora’s birth story (Part One and Part Two), you know that she was born in a birth center. If that’s an unfamiliar term to you, it’s essentially a happy-medium between a home birth and a hospital birth. We had a midwife, I was...