Lately I have been having all kinds of dreams about what Chocolate Baby’s birth will be like. I guess my subconscious mind is trying to prepare me for the idea. It’s also brought back all the memories I have of Drake’s birth, so I thought I would share that story now as well, as my worries about [...]
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There were several false starts to the birth of my twins. As I wrote in a past post, I was monitored very closely throughout my whole pregnancy. At 34.5 weeks my blood pressure went up and my pre-eclampsia was getting worse. There were some concerns on the heart monitors so I was sent to the hospital. [...]
scheduled c-section for breech baby I wouldn’t change anything about the birth. My only qualm was the number of visitors we had on Saturday (I had Chloe on Friday). My husband had gone home to feed our cats and shower. I don’t remember him being gone for too long, but it felt like as soon [...]
With the chill of the morning air coming through our open bedroom windows, I got dressed in my “labour outfit,” which had been hanging on my closet door for weeks waiting for the natural beginning of labour to take place. I wanted to feel like myself and look like myself even though the fact that [...]
I left off our story with leaving the hospital having not held my son, but only seeing him through a window for a few minutes. We returned the next day and received our bright green visitor badge. Now I look back and find it very fitting. I did feel like a visitor. We were allowed [...]
We were matched with our birth mother at the beginning of October 2008. We were told that she was due at the end of October. We were very excited to have our Halloween baby home with us, but it didn’t quite turn out that way. We got several update emails from our social worker that our birth [...]
Before jumping into the meat of this birth story novella, let me be an absurdly proud mama and introduce you to the little boys who are making my world go round. Meet Elliot & Finn. (L) Finn & (R) Elliot Love these little guys! Now on to the details.
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