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My Birth Story – Just Right Fourth Time Round

by Julie Cottlein Birth, Breastfeeding, Pregnancy9 Comments on My Birth Story – Just Right Fourth Time Round

I wrote this post when my little Lachlan was 3 days old. He’s now 11 days old and this still seems like it happened yesterday. I’m living in a time warp. Days seem like hours. In my mind, I wrote this post yesterday. I can’t believe it’s actually been a week and a half.

Here’s the post as I wrote it a week and a half ago.

Amidst nature’s post birth practical jokes of after pains and leaky, aching, engorged boobies- It’s time for this new mama of 4 to string together a post natal blog post.

I have about a hundred posts in my head and run the risk of running  them all together in this one post but I’m going to try and keep it shortish and focus just on my labour. More will come over the next few days, weeks, whatever.

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What’s in my labour bag?

by Julie Cottlein Birth, Pregnancy, Uncategorised

I should now call this post ‘What was in my labour bag’, I wrote this a week ago and didn’t get it checked over for typos in time.  Now here I am, editing with a sweet little boy snoozin’ in Dad’s arms on the other lounge :-).  I’ll update at some stage soon with what I actually used and what I forgot, but for now, here’s the post as it was written a week ago (with post natal brain editing. Go easy).

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Dear midwives assisting in the delivery of my baby

by Julie Cottlein Birth, Breastfeeding, Pregnancy2 Comments on Dear midwives assisting in the delivery of my baby

I have a few requests that I would appreciate you cooperation with during the delivery of my baby. I understand that things don’t always work out as planned and am willing to discuss them if there turns out to be a need to change plans.

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