Prego Mego

Hey everyone, Today's post is a personal one, notably on my experience with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following the birth of my eldest child. To quickly catch you up, I was induced at 37 weeks after a 4-night stay in the Antenatal Unit where my blood sugars and baby's heart rate was closely monitored. My OB was on vacation and my care was transferred to another Doctor, who I didn't really get along with. She had cancelled my scheduled induction that my actual OB had planned, and she discharged me from the unit. While I was relieved to go home, I was really disappointed that all of the planning that had gone into my induction was then cancelled, so after some time resting at home (about a day) I tried to fight for my initial induction date to be rescheduled. She told me that she wanted me to get to 38 weeks (coincidentally when my OB was back from her trip), and her excuses were the following: one time she delivered a baby before 38 weeks who needed a feeding tube which...

Today commemorates the beginning of something I've wanted to do for a while- share Canadian birth stories in all their glory!  The first story I have to share is from Ashley, a Manitoba mama who has a wonderful blog called The Labouring Mom . She writes about all things pregnancy, childbirth and parenting related and is a wonderful read for an expecting parent, new-parent or baby-enthusiast! (I realize baby enthusiast sounds strange, but I was one of those people watching baby name videos long before ever deciding to have a baby myself) Anyway, I really recommend checking out her blog and social media, and I hope you enjoy her story where she welcomed her sweet little girl into the world in September of 2019. Ashley didn't enjoy her pregnancy, something that I think shocks a lot of people but is also very, very relatable to mothers like myself. She experienced lots of sickness, and while very excited for her little one and grateful to be pregnant, overall felt the whole thing w...