What is THIS?!!

Are you sure you want to ask?

The children were curious too and wanted to know WHY I was putting a toilet seat on a perfectly good chair. That brought up some interesting conversation!

I bet a few of you can guess;-)

This is my custom made birthing stool.
Technically I didn't make much of it, but I am proud of my handiness and ingenuity.
I bought this darling chair and a matching night stand while thrifting last week with Mrs Smith and ten children. I needed a night stand; and I intended to find a chair I could hack down for the birth stool purpose, but this one was sturdy and oh so cute! I couldn't bare to hack into it, so decided to make it work like this and recover and replace the seat after I'm done using it as a birthing stool.

I have used birthing stools a few times in the past (more along these lines) and I really like them. There are several reasons I like to use a chair of this sort during labor, but the main one is that I normally have pretty intense back labor.
If I am sitting up AJ is able to put downward pressure on my back where I need it, which greatly eases the pain.

Obviously this chair has a back so it will be interesting to see if it works well for this purpose, but perhaps I can turn around? I'll have to tell later if it was a success or not.
If not, no love lost - I still have a darling little chair for my bedroom.

And if all else fails?

We can use it like it is... in Idaho ;-D
















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