I know this may sound strange. But I still grieve for my labours. Both of them. Sometimes I lie there awake at night and think about them. I dream about them. I long for things to have gone differently. But they didn’t. They just didn’t. (more…)
Posts tagged “Pregancy”
My Real Birth Story – Cath Lankford
My Real Birth Story – Cath Lankford Pregnancy a second time is a weird thing. It’s as if you’re a glutton for punishment! I mean yes, you hopefully get another beautiful baby out of it, but you know what’s coming the whole time. You know that at the end of the process there is something the size of a BASKETBALL that needs to exit a very tiny hole to get out of your body… (more…)
My Real Birth Story – Ellyn Shepherd (mummalifelovebaby)
Hey guys!! *waves madly*. Sooooo, here is the latest instalment in our Real Birth Story Series, and this time it has been written by ME – Ellyn, head honcho over here at mummalifelovebaby! Wooooo! This was my second labour and birth, which meant that although I hoped for a different experience, I assumed it would be exactly the same as the first… How did it go, you ask? Well, read on to find out… xox (more…)
Diary of a Crazy Pregnant Lady – Weeks 39 to 40
I am 39 weeks pregnant now. And I keep asking the little human inside my womb to just hurry the heck up and get here. Please. Because mumma is seriously running out of patience now. (more…)
Diary of a Crazy Pregnant Lady – Weeks 34 to 36
Pregnant Lady Alert! Pregnant Lady Alert! Tummy that has stretched beyond what is humanly possibly for 34 freaking weeks alert! I say this every freaking time I know but 34 weeks? THIRTY FOUR FREAKING WEEKS? But…but that means that I have just 6 weeks to go? Its saaaaaaah crazy! Who made time speed up like this? Who took away the in-between? What is going on? (more…)
To My Dear Baby Girl – A Letter To My Unborn Child
To My Dear Baby Girl, As I write this, I have 5 weeks to go until you arrive. Well, approximately of course. I am hoping you come earlier, but I hoped that with your brother too and he came in his own sweet time so I am not holding my breath. (more…)
Diary of a Crazy Pregnant Lady – Weeks 31 to 33
Yep. So I am 31 weeks, and I have nine weeks to go. Nine weeks???!! Say whhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Holy Freaking Jelly I cannot believe we are this far along. I mean, I have lived every second of this pregnancy so I am completely eyeballingly aware of where I am at realistically, but as every week ticks over I find myself completely shocked crapless all over again. (more…)
My Real Birth Story – Tamla Verban
My name is Tamla and I’m the Mama behind the small business, Bubakin. Essentially my birth stories are what shaped my business! Both my boys were born at home with two midwives and just my husband and I in blissful peaceful surroundings. So I will endeavour to write them both here in short. I really believe sharing stories is our first step to being the empowered birthing goddesses we really are. After all, our bodies were designed to have babies! (more…)
Diary Of A Pregnant Crazy Lady – Weeks 28 to 30
Ermagawd. I’m 28 weeks pregnant now and boy, things are really happening! This kid seriously tried to kick her way out of the front of my body this week. (more…)
Diary of a Crazy Pregnant Lady – Weeks 25 to 27
I have now hit 25 weeks! WTAF? Where did those weeks go? How did I get here? Who am I? Time has flown by so quickly that my head may be literally spinning. (more…)