When Dave and I found out we were going to have a baby, we were thrilled…and we knew we had 9 months to make sure everything was perfect. Fast forward 24 weeks, and we were celebrating the August long weekend with some friends. I had woken up the following morning, knowing that something just wasn’t
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It started simply enough. We had just bought our first home and were looking forward to our first child. We were beside ourselves with excitement and anticipation as we were growing our family and living our dreams. We were a typical couple with typical plans, I suppose. The marriage – check. The careers – check.
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I couldn’t believe it, the day had finally arrived. We were going to start trying to have a baby and I was thrilled with the prospect. 5 years married, numerous trips taken and our lives fulfilled up till this point, we were ecstatic to start this new chapter in our lives. Little did we know
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The ‘road’ to our pregnancy was long and stressful – multiple fertility treatments and miscarriages. When we were finally pregnant the pregnancy was full of lots of lots of trips to Emerge because of unexplained bleeding and cramping. On Thursday September 6th, 2007 (24 weeks pregnant) I boarded a train from London to Ottawa to
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June 15th, 2010 at 9:28pm our son Benjamin Cornelis Carmichael came into this world 13 weeks early. After two full-term babies, this was totally unexpected. He was 2lbs 7oz and 13in long… but beautiful in every way. The first two weeks of his life were low key: he slowly progressed and was doing well. On
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