The story of my first private practice birth that was amazing except for a grueling 15 minutes.

A great life long friend asked me how my TOLAC went. I love this friend and she’s probably going to read this, so if you do Andy, know that I love you I just don’t like some of the common verbiage used around birth. TOLAC means Trial of Labor After a Cesarean and refers to the act of laboring to achieve a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After a Cesarean).

I was informed today that half of Texas’ midwives work in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It’s been said many times that if you throw a rock in DFW, you have a good chance of hitting a midwife….