I began to get a feeling that maybe I would be one of those poor women who had to be induced three times before being told they had to have a c-section. After all I was already at least 9 days overdue as our ultrasound indicated that our due date was April 27 rather than [...]
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What can I say…I had a dream pregnancy, I enjoyed every waking second of it. I felt great, I looked pretty good and generally had a great outlook on the new direction my life was going. Was all of this glorious well being going to end up being a unfavorable omen??
Every pregnant women has her [...]
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Eleven days over due and finally here. Our little boy Jackson Ryan Kyle was finally born at 12.09am on May 11th 2010!
The labour story is an interesting one that will all be told at a later date. Presently I am still hosting my parents and getting used to my new life and writing is definitely [...]
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Yesterday we headed back down to the city for our fetal monitoring appointment. My mom, husband and I were all pretty excited since the night before I had lost my mucus plug and was expecting to go into labour at any moment! However that wasn’t the case, nor is it the case that losing your [...]
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Well it is now May 5th and I am still with child! Yesterday I went down to the city to see my Doctor once more and have my “membranes swept”. If you have not heard this term before it essentially means that your Doctor or Midwife inserts their finger into the cervix to sweep around [...]
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Today is May 2nd 2010 and no baby yet, no sign either! Yesterday we spent the day walking, taking long drives on bumpy roads and several minutes of stationary bouncing but to no avail.
I was experiencing a sharp almost sting like pain very low and deep inside from what I can only describe as possibly [...]
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We traveled to the city today for our last pre-birth Dr. appointment. The traffic was terrible, every other car was a terrible driver, construction was back up again and there was a brutal accident on the Lions Gate Bridge so we had to go the very long way around to get to our appointment on [...]
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Only one more week to go and it is finally starting to feel like it. Sleep is getting shorter and shorter between periods, baby is dropping and it’s getting harder to walk certain distances, my belly is getting tighter and tighter so that I feel every move the baby makes and I am finally [...]
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So I am in my 37th week now, the big B-Day is right around the corner so I am finally getting into the preparation stages for my first labour experience.
I never mentioned this earlier on in my pregnancy for some reason so I thought I would talk about labour support today. When we first found [...]
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One thing that I have really wanted to find was a natural baby product line that wasn’t going to break my bank account which is about to go on a serious diet! I have been Googling, searching, reading and I have found a few products that I am interested in but they are either impossible [...]
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