Kirstyn Sierra
Wife - Mother - Sister
Friend

My name is Kirstyn Sierra, and I am a mother of five wonderful children, and a wife of 24 years to my husband.

I've been encouraging women through their pregnancies for more than 25 years, and educating them about birth choices, newborn care, and how to care for themselves after the baby arrives.

Now I've created BirthBabyAndMom.com to help you make the sometimes overwhelming transition into motherhood. This site is my way of sharing my passion about birth, babies and all things “mothering” with you.

To help you get to know more about me, I've written this page with a little information about my background.

When I was young, I loved working with infants. From baby sitting, to working in church nurseries, I found myself working with babies every opportunity I had.

At the tender age of 20, I married my high school sweetheart. Soon after we married, I became the nursery director at church.

At the age of 23, I was offered a position as Office Manager at a prestigious Christian Preschool. I managed the office, but also interacted with the children every day.

While working full time at the preschool, I babysat on evenings and weekends. One of my favorite babysitting jobs was on Saturdays when I cared for a baby in our home. Somehow, caring for babies helped to pacify that deep desire to have children during a time when I couldn't have any of my own.

I worked at the preschool for nearly 6 years, until I had our first child. 19 months later, at the age of 30, I had our second child, and at the same time, started a Child Care Information and Referral Service.

I later became a State Licensed Child Care Provider, and cared for newborns and infants in my home for about 6 years. All of my previous experience caring for babies really paid off. From helping a breastfeeding newborn to take a bottle while mom was at work, to helping a one year old transition from home to day care, I had the skills needed.

A few years later, our 3rd child was born with a congenital heart defect. He had open heart surgery at 2 months of age, and did incredibly well.

This was the perfect time to stop day care, as our oldest was 6, and we were beginning to homeschool.

When we decided to try for our 4th child, I didn’t conceive quickly. I was in my late 30’s and the hormones that regulate fertility were low. That's when I started doing more research on fertility and infertility. For a year or more I did the whole "trying to conceive" thing, and after a year of trying, I conceived. I had our 4th child when I was 38.

Three years after that, a month shy of my 41st birthday, I gave birth to our 5th child. All were homebirths, and the last two were waterbirths.

Are there anymore pregnancies in my future? I don't know. But if God wants to bless us with another precious gift, I'll graciously accept.

As I continue to build this site, I will share with you all I’ve learned during the past 30 years of working with moms and children.

• Want to know how I got my husband to say "yes, let's have a baby", after 7 years of saying "no"?
  
  
• Curious as to how I got pregnant with our first child the very first month we tried?
  
  
• Interested in knowing how we tried for a girl, and got a girl?
  

Live the dreams that you keep in your heart...

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