I am a mother of three children and have had two of them via natural birth and my middle daughter was an elective C-section. I would just like to share my experience of how I found the whole process of having a C-section compared to natural birth. With my first son, I labored for […]
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In the last few months we announced to family and friends that we were having our fourth child. At present we have three children under six and our eldest is not yet at school though he will be next year. We knew the responses would be mixed, but we weren’t quite prepared for how significant
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Being pregnant and giving birth during a pandemic is quite the experience. My husband (Iresh) and I found out we were expecting in February 2020 and we were excited! Little did we know that Sri Lanka would go in to a total lockdown starting March that year. I passed my 12 weeks without an ultrasound
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Well, it’s happened at long last. After over 10 years of marriage and being open to life we have just purchased our first…minivan. We suspected that this day would come, although a diagnosis of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) late last year had led us to believe that baby number six may not be a
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When I was pregnant with our first baby our parish priest at the time brought around a relic of St Gerard Majella to our house. Whilst he was very generous in lending us the relic so that we mighty prayerfully accompany our pregnancy it was what he said leading up to it that was
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A recent holiday saw me 6 months pregnant and in need of a maternity rashie but rather than spending $80 for an item I’ll probably wear a handful of times at best I made my own and you can do it too. And my DIY Maternity Rashie cost me about $7! What you’ll need: A
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Ok, I’ll admit it. As soon as I see that little baby on the ultrasound machine I go to pieces. You’d think that after seeing countless images of my children in utero – this baby is my fifth – it would get a little less exciting. But it doesn’t. I’m almost halfway in
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You might recall that I recently wrote about the fickleness of fertility recently in this post where I discussed my anovulatory cycles and a family history of early menopause. I had begun to wonder if my family was complete. But God has had other plans. My husband and I are now expecting our fifth
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First of all, congratulations. Some of this will feel really familiar and some will be worse. People will start asking you questions about the size of your family and whether or not you’ll stop after this one. Get ready and try to respond charitably, even though it is none of their business. You will
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We continue our discussion with Dr Emma Vieira. For the preceding article find the link here. Natural family planning – what is it? Natural family planning (NFP) is the avoidance of intercourse during known fertile times, in order to avoid pregnancy. There are several methods: Billings method – cervical mucus pattern Sympto-thermal method
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