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A birth

labour room excitement paperwork hooks on trays, look away unpacking: book/lipbalm/water bottle kissing four faces goodbye nervous tears lonely waiting cannula, oops try again try again medical guinea pig monitoring swish-swish of a heartbeat reading staring out of the window missing four faces waiting excitement hungry HUNGRY food, relief doctor, introductions touching my feet but, [...]

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‘Twas the night before Christmas, baby

A very Happy Christmas to all my readers. And this is for my lovely friend Sophie who has gone into labor this morning with her fourth boy, ten days early. It was so what she was not hoping for, but Christmas presents don’t come much better than a tiny Christmas baby! (Not broody, honestly.) Although [...]

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Ass Botox and anal fissures

There is no way of putting this politely. Despite a near-perfect birth and a pretty perfect baby, I have another not quite so fun legacy of my recent childbirth experience: my backside is in bad shape.  For those of you who know me personally I’M SO SORRY TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU and please feel [...]

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Thirty-eight weeks pregnant. And that’s enough.

So tomorrow is Friday. Hmmm, what shall I do? I know. LET’S GO HAVE A BABY. *********** Tomorrow I am being induced because of the diabetes, because the scans say the baby is getting too big. The registrar two weeks ago reassured me in his lilting Nigerian accent, ‘no need to worry, you can go [...]

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Packing a labor bag

So I’ve been having irregular contractions for a couple of days. But last time round I had the same thing for several weeks before my due date and Ben ended up being fifteen days overdue. Even then he only came out because I was induced. Lazy boy. So I’m not worried. But I have packed [...]

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Third trimester: thirty-five weeks pregnant

From behind, you can hardly tell I’m pregnant (until I start to move and then the pregnant waddle gives it away). I carry my babies all out the front and it kills my back. And at thirty-five weeks I am carrying ALOT of baby out front. And I’m hurting. The last few weeks of pregnancy [...]

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