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ΔΔΔ 12 May 2013 | 06:55 pm
I'm not sure if it's ironic or apt that I should write my last post on Mother's Day (perhaps it's neither) but it's definitely coincidental. Over the last few years I've struggled with issues that I'...
ΔΔΔ 24 Apr 2013 | 06:10 pm
"When I grow up I'm going to be a real doctor! I'm going to give everyone LOTS of needles! But you'll have to drive me to work..." Thanks for the comments on my last post. It was challenging to write...
ΔΔΔ 15 Apr 2013 | 05:31 pm
The birth story of Juniper Valentine begins not with labour, but the incident that would ultimately forbid it from happening, and alter the course of the remainder of my pregnancy. I was 21 weeks pre...
ΔΔΔ 2 Apr 2013 | 04:30 pm
One of the things I was often consoled with whilst pregnant – in regards to having a caesarean – was that I would get to choose the baby's birthday. Know would have been a more appropriate term, as th...
ΔΔΔ 21 Mar 2013 | 03:49 pm
Evidently, I spoke to soon. The following night after writing my last post, I woke with another bleed – which didn't stop. We arrived at hospital at 2am and 10 hours later, our baby girl – Juniper Val...
ΔΔΔ 13 Mar 2013 | 02:54 pm
Hello, just a little update – 35 weeks. 3 weeks since the last bleed, 3 more to go. We met with our Obstetrician again today who okay'd everything on our list of preferences for the caesarean, to make...
ΔΔΔ 24 Feb 2013 | 12:24 pm
Wednesday afternoon – after a scan that confirmed the migration of the placenta further across my cervix – we met with our Obstetrician for the first time, a gentle and kind man supportive of natural ...
ΔΔΔ 18 Feb 2013 | 04:40 pm
A very sincere and heartfelt thank you for all the comments, well wishes and stories shared on my last post. It's been an emotionally challenging few weeks here but I've finally reached a place where ...
ΔΔΔ 1 Feb 2013 | 03:58 pm
BB – not one for having her photo taken these days. It's becoming more and more evident she's the offspring of two introverts. A standard conversation about preschool would go something like this: Me...
ΔΔΔ 12 Jan 2013 | 07:08 am
26 week happy summer bump. Let's hope this baby grows up to be unsentimental and isn't too bothered that big sister's time in utero was documented fastidiously and his/her own has so far consisted of ...