Preparing your toddlers for a new sibling
A scavenger hunt, four clues written in the car, a pink cake, and two small children who had been praying for a sister since one of them was three.
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Six posts. They were written over several years and put up in the order a reader needs them: the loss, then the midwife, then the dream, then the births, then two toddlers waiting for a sister.
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At 9:43 in the evening
Hezekiah arrived weighing nine pounds twelve ounces, and then the room changed very quickly.
Karis, at dawn
Seventeen hours of labour, thirteen of them with no pain, and a watermelon eaten in the birthing pool.
Why are you so worried?
A letter to God in the autumn of 2017, a pregnancy two days later, and a dream that asked me the question nobody had.
Why I chose a midwife
What I was actually offered at nine weeks pregnant, what I got, and what I would tell a friend who asked me the same question.
Nine weeks and three days
The summer there was no heartbeat, the three choices nobody should have to make, and the call ten days afterwards.
These were written at different times and put up in the order I would want a reader to meet them. If you are new here, begin with nine weeks and three days and read forward.