- August 16, 2019
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I'm so pleased to finally be publishing my birth story, this is probably one the blog posts that has taken me the longest to write - partly because of the sheer lack of time when having a newborn, and also wanting to go through it all with Ben over the past few weeks, some of the details were really blurry to me. I wanted to write this all down for my own sake as well as sharing for those who are interested in reading it. It really was the most incredible experience I have ever gone through, and looking back at it now, I wouldn't change a single thing. In fact, I felt a real sadness {and still do in a way} when each Saturday goes past, that it's been another week since it all happened. I'm a week further away and fear that the memories of it will all start to fade. I'm sure I'll stop thinking soon 'this time five weeks ago, it was all kicking off' but I hope I never forget it and the way it all felt. Although it is SO true what they say, that old cliche that the very minute it was over and I had a baby on my chest, despite saying just an hour before that I'd never do this again, I'd forgotten the pain and just felt elated and wanted to do it alll again tomorrow.
I devoured as many birth stories as I could when I was pregnant - each one so special and unique. It's incredible how different every single one is, which is why they're all so interesting to read I think. I looked especially for the positive birth stories, hoping that mine - as every woman would - would be straightforward too and to avoid any fear of what could happen {although weirldy, I think you can take comfort in reading those which are scary and know that both the mama and baby were fine in the end}. And likewise for homebirths {I've written all about wanting and planning for a homebirth in this blog post}, I couldn't get enough of reading about those although couldn't find that many, especially for a first baby. So anyway, in my true indecisive, include everything fashion, here's our story {split into two parts as it's pretty long}. The story that brought baby Freya into the world and changed our lives forever <3.
- August 15, 2019
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And as with all things pregnancy/birth/parenting related, every person's experience is completely different so please don't let this turn into a debate or start criticising others for their choices. It goes without saying that this is just my own personal experience and blog, I'm not an expert nor medically trained, just sharing because people have been interested.
- August 11, 2019
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photo by Little White Photography - gifted shoot |
Freya Elizabeth Sterling
6th July 2019
7lb 15oz
Hello baby! She's here, she's here. Well, in fact, she arrived almost five {HOW?!} weeks ago already. And there is just SO much to catch up on, I don't really know where to start. I also hardly have any time right now with a certain little person taking it all up, which is how it should be right now. So forgive me for trading my laptop and writing this blog for snuggling up with baby Freya, sniffing her head, feeding her {some days I've felt like I've spent 90% of it feeding her} and just soaking her and this special newborn period allll up. We'll start finding our rhythm more soon, but right now it's really unpredictable as to how long, and when, she'll sleep for as to how much I can get done. But I have so much I want to talk about. So back properly soon! I need to decide what to catch up on and post about from the past few weeks, but in the meantime will try to get my birth story written as I had a homebirth and I know lots of you on Instagram are interested to hear all about that.
Thank you also for everyone's incredible messages and comments, I'm sorry I've been rubbish and hardly replied to anything recently.
Big, big love.
R <3 xx
- August 08, 2019
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