Today has been a pretty good day. When the day started, both baby Jake and mum Toni were in hospital, status uncertain. Toni was doing alright by all accounts, but Jake was listed as critical, with a broken clavicle and also following two seizures about five hours after his birth. I returned to work so […]
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Welcome to the world, Jake Bradley Sanders. At 01:10 am on the 13th of February, 2012, we welcomed Jake into our family. He was born via natural birth at Calvary Hospital and weighed nine pounds and six ounces, and fifty one centimetres long. He had a few after-birth complications and was transferred to Woden Valley […]
Continue ReadingA Journey to Parenthood – Part 1
It is around 10:30pm on a Thursday night, and it’s only getting later. The nastiest aspect of this maternity has been the waiting game. Yesterday at 4:30pm, Toni went into labour with contractions occurring on or around every fifteen minutes. By this time last night, her contractions had become slightly more persistent, and the pain […]
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