Itʼs July, Mauri phones to tell me the news, weʼre pregnant again. Whoohoo! We had been trying and Mauri had had a dream in which a date for a birth of a baby was given. So the news was, well, wow perhaps God had spoken to us about the actual birthday! We did a calculation and due date was in the ʻdate proximityʼ. Sure it was very early days, but God had spoken hadnʼt he, [...]
Shaun and I had been married for a couple of months and decided to start trying for a family. Imagine our excitement as we found out I was pregnant. At about 8 weeks things didn't seem to be quite right so found a gynae and went for a check-up. I had terrible pain and was bleeding a little. After some scanning and much to our surprise the doc couldn't find any indication of a pregnancy [...]
My second daughter, Zoe, was stillborn at 37 weeks on 24th March 2007 in London, UK - we had no warning, one day she was well, with a strong heartbeat, head down, ready to come into the world, and two days later, she was dead. It turns out that Nicole has a blood condition that pre-disposes her toward clotting, and the best guess is that there must have been sudden clotting in the placenta/umbilical chord [...]
many of you already know the history, but for anyone who may not... in the beginning there was Jack Handey and such winners as: "It’s sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs." [Jack Handey] "Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words [...]
i thoroughly enjoy stories of hope and unselfishness and here is one of them... inspiring stuff...
so last nite the beautiful val and i flew to kwazulu natal where we met up with dreadlock mike and nancy who we are driving up to botswana with (but that's another post) and on the plane we got talking to stan who was a friendly-seeming guy sitting next to us [no CATFLAP MAN on this flight...] and got chatting cos we were sodukuing and his wife is an avid sodukuer [stan's wife, not CATFLAP [...]
so last nite i was driving a buddy home from my theatresports show and he said something along the lines of "i'm going to sleep like a baby tonite" and i thort why? why would you want that? i haven't had a baby - besides the physiological impossibilities of that unless you happen to be an austrian governor of a U.S. state - and neither has my wife - and STOP ASKING US (future blog, [...]
ad on the side of my screen on Facebook: Hard Get Pregnant? Pregnancy Miracle will show you how to maximise chances of getting pregnant. Pregnancy Miracle will show you how to have healthy babies. let me get this straight - you start off with the heading 'Hard Get Pregnant?' and you want me to trust you with the future mother of my kids... you have got to be joking. Hard Get Chocolate? that link i [...]