Our multinational real & raw family labor and delivery story I always start the story of my first-time labor with the tale called “The Shepherd Boy and The Wolf,” where the shepherd boy was once herding sheep and decided to play a joke on the woodcutters. He shouted and asked for help crying that a …
It was 2 a.m., and the cries started again. My newborn’s face was scrunched into the tiniest, angriest frown I’d ever seen, and I could feel my heart racing. Was it hunger? Gas? Did I miss a diaper change? I looked over at my partner, who shrugged helplessly, half-asleep. In those early days of parenthood, …
I enjoy being pregnant. I think the pregnancy stage is the most beautiful stage of women’s lives. If I were to choose, I’d choose to be an elephant as they get to grow babies in their wombs for two years. We have only 40 weeks. Except for the last two to three weeks, the rest …
In the last five years I experienced three pregnancies and two live births. I was in a constant hormonal pregnant mode for the entire twelve months due to the miscarriage. Although it was a whole lot, I can now confidently say that the first pregnancy, the first birth, and the first baby is the most …
Apart from preparing everything for a baby’s arrival and packing to a hospital, you should consider how exactly you would like to give birth to your child. This is why you need a birth planner, or birth plan checklist. Sounds odd, what is there to consider? In fact, there are plenty of things that you …
So, there is this time when you are planning to have a baby, or not planning and it comes to some lovely surprise. For me, I have waited for two years for my husband to say ‘yes’, three months to conceive and I have almost spent 12 weeks getting my first ultrasound. It happened on …
It may seem to be a difficult task at first sight, especially for last minute hospital bag items. Of course, the least we want is to forget a very important thing for a baby or a mother postpartum. However, please, stay reassured that even if you didn’t take enough nappies, maternity pads or disposable knickers, …
