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When Allison told me that she was pregnant it was a very surreal feeling. I felt somewhere between excitement (feeling that we are finally here) and shock (we’re really going to be parents). When week 11 came, it was time for our midwife appointment. Our midwife would try and hear the heartbeat, our excitement began to build. Upon leaving the …
On November 23rd, 2009 I awoke around 2:00 a.m. with mild contractions that were seven minutes apart. This kept going until 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. I called my midwife JoanMargaret to tell her what was happening. She encouraged me to nap. I scrambled through the baby name book for a name that popped into my head upon waking. I found …
Your father went into Banff on Friday July 25th, 2008 in the evening. He rode his motorcycle out there in case he needed to get back quickly to me. I had a feeling the contractions would start that evening, so I asked your Nana to go to the movies with me as a distraction. Once I got home I lost …
It was the weekend of December 12, 2009, the coldest weekend of the year, and we were moving into our new home – I was 39 weeks pregnant. We were planning a home birth for number three so I was relieved to be settling into our new “nest” prior to her arrival. Just as in the past, my due date …
I was always fascinated by the woman’s body; its beauty and ability to create life. I wondered how I would handle childbirth. I knew I wanted a big family. My mind was set on having kids early to make sure I was at my healthiest. For reasons out of my control my plans fell through and probably for the better. …
The pink figure flying towards us down the corridor was motioning wildly. Somewhere deep within I knew that the action must be directed towards us but she seemed, at that moment, utterly irrelevant. My husband and I were walking slowly into the hospital as I laboured. At each contraction, now very close together, he would kneel as I paused and …
I had never given too much thought to birth. Until my husband and I decided to start a family and I became pregnant. Then birth was all that I could think about. To state it lightly, I was terrified. In my own slightly perfectionist way, I worried that I wouldn’t be “good” at birth. The imagined worst case scenario would …
When my husband Dustin and I decided we wanted to start a family, we were faced with a very difficult truth: I have polycystic ovarian syndrome which would make it almost impossible to get pregnant without intervention. I was devastated, but Dustin, being the constant optimist that he is, knew we would get through it whatever the outcome. With the …
This birth story starts before we even knew we were pregnant. In July 2009, Dalen and I decided that we would start trying for another little one. We knew, based on our history, it hardly meant that we would see a positive pregnancy quickly. At the end of August medical tests confirmed I was pregnant. The numbers weren’t rising as …
Some moments of Lake’s birth are very clear to me still, some are very vague, some time frames are unclear as they seemed to be racing by, but nobody was watching a clock. On January 4th I woke up with contractions that seemed to be gathering steam. The contractions faded throughout the afternoon and then stopped. I had contractions and …
