Birthwayskc.com
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Birth Ways KC
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Gloria Squitiro is mostly a stay at home mom. She has been married to her adorable husband Mark for over 25 years. To date, their greatest joy and blessing in life have come from raising their children Tara, 19 and Andrew, 14. (Luckily for those reading this, we are having a good "teen" day, otherwise, Gloria just might take the medication that her clients don’t have a need for while in labor. This is all in jest of course, but you’ll know what I’m talking about soon enough – those little babes of yours will grow up too!)
Gloria’s fascination with pregnancy began shortly after high school when living in the beautiful mountains of West Virginia. Something about being around nature twenty-four hours a day sparked her interest in natural childbirth. She talked, read and enjoyed her friend’s pregnant bellies long before she ever dreamt of starting a family of her own. But once she did, she knew that the most meaningful experience would come from having a natural birth.
To her great shock, everything she read did not prepare her for having her first birth by cesarean section. At the time, she trusted the reasoning given her - that it was impossible to safely deliver a 10 pound baby naturally. After she conceived her second child, she began to doubt that diagnosis. She knew her grandmother had delivered a sixteen pound baby, but she was from Italy, so everyone thought the numbers got mixed-up in the translation! But then she remembered that she herself was a nine pound baby, and her mother had no complications with delivering naturally, so what’s one more pound?
