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Blogging It

Blogging It

{Image via here} “It’s bad” my husband said “but I can’t remember what Riley’s first word was now” “Neither can I. But that’s what my blog is for” That was essentially the whole reason behind starting my blog was so that I would have somewhere to go and find out these things when my sleep [...]

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The Anti-Clique Conference

The Anti-Clique Conference

{Image via here} In life cliques are natural. People make connections, some are stronger than others and groups of friends form. And it’s equally natural for people to be excluded from that group. It is what makes it special in the first place. But conferences should be the house of the anti-cliqueyness because it’s a [...]

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VBAC – The After

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I love new baby smell. New baby smell will cure practically any ill. I can still remember being in the hospital that night with Piper after Josh had gone home, just soaking everything in. That first night also taught me two things – I hate hospitals. Just moving from the birthing suite to the ward [...]

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VBAC – The Birth

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Pushing seems like a fantastic idea at the time. It seems like you are so close to the end. And then I realised that the pain into my hips when I pushed made me want to die. It’s probably because I tend to have dodgy hips and a twisted pelvis. I’m sure that didn’t help [...]

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VBAC – The Labour

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I was at one of my routine post due-date check ups to make sure that delaying induction was still ok when they told me that my cervix had not made any movement towards dilation. I was disappointed. Very disappointed. I’d been having back pain and what felt like Braxton Hicks contractions all day and I [...]

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VBAC – The Pregnancy

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It took us about 8 or 9 months to get pregnant with Piper. That’s alot of VBAC research time. And I certainly did alot of research. Some of the most interesting things I found out were: 1) Induction increases your risk of complications requiring a c-section by 250% but only for first births, induction doesn’t [...]

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VBAC – The Before

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I’ve been meaning to write about my VBAC for awhile now (nearly a year? I know I am SO on the ball). But when I sat down to write it today it just didn’t make sense without a history or a context. My experience of my c-section was that it was a violent way for [...]

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Guest Post @ The Mummy Autobiography

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I was hosted by the lovely Miss Pink of The Mummy Autobiography this week. You can head over here to check it out.

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The Speech

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  I’ve been contemplating what I’m writing in my speech for the Digital Parents Conference for My Blog, My Story. So far I have the bones of it. Which I have to say is largely thanks to Cat, who tweeted me what she would like to hear. I haven’t been working on it during the [...]

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Why Bloggers Feel Excluded

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At preschool this week: Riley (to random boy): Will you be my friend? Random boy: Yes! Riley (to me): See mummy, I have a bestest, best friend! I died a little inside from the cuteness. But me and the random boy’s mother sighed a little at the ease of it. At how simple it was. [...]

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