It’s totally normal to feel that sadness for your first born when you leave to go have your second! I’m so glad you enjoyed Kelsey’s story and hope everything goes well with your second baby!!!

I had my first at a birth center but the providers were all from a typical medical background so they less warm and empathetic and the birth was less romantic than I had been led to expect. This birth 3 years later will be at the same physical location (beautiful victorian house turned birth center), but with a new company. One of the supporting midwives from my first birth (the only one I even liked, and I LOVED her) bought it from the original midwife and completely overhauled the place and their methods of practice. I cannot wait to labor in a “birving tub” and have some control over my own labor.

Reading about the guilt of seeing her first born that morning during contractions is what broke me. I feel a little more guilty every day that I get closer to my due date, especially after 2020 where we were mostly at home every day with little to no activities or fun outings to go on. He’s looking forward to being a big brother and can’t wait to meet his little sister but I just know I’m going to completely break down when I know it’s the last time it’ll be just us and him. Thank you for sharing this!

Agreed!!