"When I met my daughter she was a tiny 1,4kg and 37cm long. She had far too many wires and monitors on her, but, she was beautiful!". As we focus on Prematurity Month, a mom shares a real and raw account of her journey through her daughter's prem birth and all the challenges and critical choices she was torn between.
I was raised by a brilliant mother who truly inspired me. Since I can remember, all I wanted was to have babies “one day”. I thought that when the time came to have them it would come easily and naturally to me. But my journey presented choices that took me down a path I did not expect.
You may have heard about the dad who was arrested for rushing to buy an emergency tin of baby formula during curfew in January this year? With such a traumatic start to their milk journey, we asked the mom, Natasha, to share more about their experience and how it affected them.
Falling pregnant with twins at 38 was the biggest blessing of my life, but it also put me right up there in the category of ‘high-risk pregnancy’. Despite being high-risk, everything was going well until I developed Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP) at 26 weeks.
So it's kind of a big deal. And when I say 'kind of’, I mean huge, massive, crazy. But in 2020, crazy makes perfect sense. Although this was not the journey I had planned and it’s not how I thought my life would turn out, I have to believe it was meant to be. During a year that most people would like to forget, I landed up becoming a father, to twins.
By Stephanie Baird One of the first things that they teach you in antenatal classes is that anything can happen. Have your ideal birth plan in mind but to be open to other possibilities. You are not in control. This goes for your whole journey of motherhood.
This month in our series #mymilkjourney we feature Benita's story. Benita's is a mother of three, WOMBS certified postpartum doula and a founder of IMA community.
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