2010 was a busy year.  I was really into being a birth blogger.   I tried to improve my blog and part of that included switching from  Wordpress.com to self hosting in August.  There have been some benefits, but I feel like there were some negatives too.  I still have 2000 hits a month at the old blog and around 4000 here.   But I wish they were all at the same place.

I posted 440 times.  I started tracking how much time I spent working on my blog using Rescue Time and I spent on average 4 hours a week writing and working on my blog.   I had over 80,000 hits on my blog.

I don’t know how much this blog matters, or if it is worth all my time.

It was nice having a break over Christmas.  I read 4 books in the past 2 weeks.  I miss reading.  Maybe I need to spend more time reading and less time blogging?

Balance is what I am going to try to focus on this year.  I will be back to talk about goals – did I meet the ones from last year and what are my new ones?

For now enjoy my

Top Posts of 2010

• Jan – How can you avoid unnecessary interventions?

• Feb –  My Crazy Life as a Doula – AKA I am meant to be at some births.

• Mar – Motherhoood:  Trust your intuition.

• Apr – Policies and Attitudes and how they can prevent or lead to cesareans.

• May –  Hypnosis for a root canal?

• June – My longest birth ever – 4 Part Series

• • Part 1 – Things Get Started with Water Breaking
  • Part 2 – 33 hours later and 1^st vaginal exam shows 3cm
  • Part 3 – I leave for Cabos and my wonderful back up doula takes over.  52 hours after water breaks L. vaginally births her baby with no epidural.  J
  • Part 4 – What I missed and What Lisa thought of her birth!

• July –  Group B Strep, What are your options?

• Aug –  Breasts are not for entertainment purposes.
• Sep – Why was Thing 2s Birth not memorable?

• Oct –  How do you know when you are done having babies?

• Nov –  Important info you need to know if you have had procedures done to your cervix.

• Dec – Texting and Facebooking through birth.