• The last instalment of my birth story
    birth - pregnancy

    My Birth Story – Part 3

    April 14, 2015 - By 

    Disclaimer: Every birth story is as unique as the mom and baby who went through it. I wrote my birth plan with the knowledge that things may not turn out the way I want them to. It’s obvious that things didn’t end up going according to my “ideal”, but that’s WHY I wrote a plan – so I could be educated and prepared for the unexpected.  We left off Part 2 with the decision to have an epidural. I was tired, and my labour more or less had parked itself painfully at four centimetres. Since my water broke 24 hours…

  • The second instalment of my birth story
    birth - parenting - pregnancy

    My Birth Story – Part 2

    April 7, 2015 - By 

    Disclaimer: There’s so much judgement in the mom-blog world these days. Just like with my Birth Plan post, I ask that you practice understanding and grace for my decisions during my labour an birth.  If you missed Part 1 of Lil’ Ziggy’s birth story, go on and catch up. I’ll wait here! Now where was I? Oh yes. Where we left off, I had been admitted to the hospital. I had hoped to labour at home, but nothing seemed to be happening. Because my water had broken at 6 a.m. that morning, I had to start antibiotics at the 18-hr mark…

  • The first part of my birth story
    birth - parenting - planning - pregnancy

    My Birth Story – Part 1

    March 30, 2015 - By 

    A note before I begin my birth story: I’ll be posting my birth story in multiple parts, because TL;DR. While I’ll try to avoid the grossest details of my birth for the sake of family members who don’t need to know about my vagina, there will be some TMI shared in this post. Also, even though my baby has a real name, and that name is not Lil’ Ziggy, I will still refer to him as Lil’ Ziggy, Ziggy, or Zig, on my blog going forward. I hope that by doing so, I’ll be protecting his identity until he is old enough to…