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 […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Australian War Memorial
Yesterday my father and I visited the Australian War Memorial in the suburb of Reid, geographically North East from Lake Burley Griffin. The Memorial is situated at the end of a very wide boulevard (Anzac Parade) and was designed specifically to be viewed directly from the houses of parliament (see second photo, above), so […]
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