https://happyheartsathome.com/index.html Births, losses, and the days after. One mother's account of three babies born, every one of them at home, and two that she did not get to keep. en-gb hand-written HTML Mon, 16 Jan 2023 07:00:00 GMT https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/preparing-for-a-new-sibling.html https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/preparing-for-a-new-sibling.html Mon, 16 Jan 2023 07:00:00 GMT Family A scavenger hunt, four clues written in the car, a pink cake, and two small children who had been praying for a sister. https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/at-9-43-in-the-evening.html https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/at-9-43-in-the-evening.html Mon, 19 Aug 2019 07:00:00 GMT Birth Hezekiah arrived weighing nine pounds twelve ounces, and then the room changed very quickly. https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/karis-at-dawn.html https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/karis-at-dawn.html Mon, 04 Jun 2018 07:00:00 GMT Birth Seventeen hours of labour, thirteen of them with no pain, and a watermelon eaten in the birthing pool. https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/why-are-you-so-worried.html https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/why-are-you-so-worried.html Mon, 09 Oct 2017 07:00:00 GMT Faith A letter to God in the autumn of 2017, a pregnancy two days later, and a dream that asked me the question nobody had. https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/why-i-chose-a-midwife.html https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/why-i-chose-a-midwife.html Fri, 04 Aug 2017 07:00:00 GMT Midwife What I was actually offered at nine weeks pregnant, what I got, and what I would tell a friend who asked me the same question. https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/nine-weeks-and-three-days.html https://happyheartsathome.com/posts/nine-weeks-and-three-days.html Mon, 08 Aug 2016 07:00:00 GMT Loss The summer there was no heartbeat, the three choices nobody should have to make, and the call ten days afterwards.