Entries Tagged as 'Pregnancy'

Parker’s Birth Story (part one)

July 27th, 2011 · Comments Off

Parker’s Birth and NICU Story When deciding to have a second child, my husband and I focused on one detail, which was to get past 34 weeks with our second baby. Our first son, Hayden was born at 34 weeks and required 12 days in intensive care to grow and overcome jaundice. At 21, this [...]

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A Valentine’s Day birth story

May 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments

I remember asking my mum when I was probably about 9 or 10 years old what having a child was like. She didn’t want to talk about it. I was her first child and she was in a foreign country with little support, she was scared. All I knew about her experience until a few [...]

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Online support for pregnancy loss and stillbirth

May 9th, 2011 · 3 Comments

I came across this article the other day and it reminded me of how I first started my friendships-in-the-computer. It took us a little while, and a lot of sadness and anxiety, to build a family. I was really isolated for a while there–I couldn’t really deal with real life so well, and found solace [...]

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Tags: community · miscarriage · Pregnancy · women's health · writing