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Daily writing promptHow has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?View all responses I wrote this story years after my three stillbirths, three miscarriages, and three healthy pregnancies (AKA as G9P3A3) with humor, candor, wisdom, and hindsight, all things I did not have much of at the time.   Hopefully, my story will provide inspiration and comfort to others that have or…

Daily writing promptHow has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?View all responses I wrote this story years after my three stillbirths, three miscarriages, and three healthy pregnancies (AKA as G9P3A3) with humor, candor, wisdom, and hindsight, all things I did not have much of at the time.   Hopefully, my story will provide inspiration and comfort to others that have or…

The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back meets G9P3A3

  A recent post on Nutsrok, one of my favourite blogs, reminded me of a story about what I call the straw that broke the camel’s back…. Years ago my 20 month old son had a bad cough that he could not seem to shake, so I took him to his pediatrician.  The doctor checked my son out, then told me to take him to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) for further testing because he…

This post is a continuation of nine previous ones,(scroll down on the blog page to read them first)  and the conclusion to my story…

CONCLUSION:

I wrote this book for many reasons; the most important one being that it was very therapeutic for me to jot down details of each pregnancy, successful or not, to keep them all sorted in my mind. Reading them now, filled in to full sentences, is the most…

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CHAPTER EIGHT:

I know many people, including my parents, thought I was crazy to have gone through so many pregnancies, but I was determined to be the one to choose the size of my family. I understood their thoughts and appreciated their concern. It is possible that if we had been given a…

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CHAPTER SEVEN:

Many people did not and may still not understand why I kept trying to have another baby, especially when we had the two beautiful boys. My husband had said he could live with either choice, that because I was the one that had to go through with the physical pain and upheaval, he would leave…

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CHAPTER SIX:

After the emotional roller coaster and guilty feelings surrounding the last miscarriage, we decided that we really did want another child and should probably not put another pregnancy off much longer. I wasn’t getting any younger. Once that decision was made, I became pregnant again, planning to…

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CHAPTER FIVE:

Just one year later I discovered I was once again pregnant. Although this pregnancy wasn’t planned, the only negative thought that crossed my mind was the fact that our second son would be only 18 months old when this new baby was born. I had hoped to wait a little longer to give him more time…