I got an automatically generated report from WordPress this week with my 2012 year in review!
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 180,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 3 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!
Apparently, I wrote 187 new posts and uploaded 746 pictures!
Click here to see the complete report.
(My family year-in-review update was already published in my Happy Holidays post.)
Here’s my own expanded version of my blog year-in-review…
In 2012, I finished my miscarriage memoir: Footprints on My Heart: A Memoir of Miscarriage & Pregnancy After Loss. I was thankful for My Tribe! I had some thoughts on epidurals, risk, and decision making
and, I changed visions which in part led to offering new birth workshops instead of traditional classes.
My most popular new post was All That Matters is a Healthy Husband (or: why giving birth matters), with my old stand bys, How do I know I’m really in labor? and In-Utero Practice Breathing, still coming in ahead hits-wise, closely followed by the ever-popular Good Foods to Eat in Labor.
A couple of other new posts were also popular:
What If…She’s Stronger than She Knows…
Breastfeeding as an Ecofeminist Issue
Miscarriage and Birth
Some reminders for postpartum mamas & those who love them
Can I really expect to have a great birth? (updated edition)
Becoming an Informed Birth Consumer (updated edition)
Case Study: Low Carb Diets and Breastfeeding Mothers
The Great Birth (of the Universe)
A Bias Toward Breastfeeding?
I wrote a series of posts that I really liked a lot:
The Rest and Be Thankful Stage
Spontaneous Birth Reflex
Birth Pause…
And some other posts I also like:
Blessingways and the role of ritual
Celebrating Pregnancy & Birth Through Art
Talk to Your Baby
Where are the women who know?
Ode to my nursling
I also had an awesome time discovering 300 Things.
And, I wrote a whole series of CAPPA re-cap posts. I also semi-accidentally started a series of posts on a taking it to the body theme, for which I see a lot of ways of continuing.
I reprinted several articles that were published earlier in various magazines:
Talk Less, Learn More: Evolving as an Educator
A Tale of Two Births
Incorporating Prenatal Yoga into Childbirth Education Classes
Breastfeeding as a Spiritual Practice
Breastfeeding as an Ecofeminist Issue
Domestic Violence During Pregnancy
The lifelong impact of breastfeeding support
Small Stone Birth Activism
I hit 300,000 hits (up an additional 46,000 now already) and had a celebration giveaway (for which I still need to draw the winner!) because I also started selling birth jewelry. And, I had my first Blog Break Festival!
What a good year it was🙂
Happy New Year!
To kick off 2013, I drew a new Full Moon Calamandala!
