20. Novah Cannon Macalligan
/Our baby has entered the world and our lives and we could not be happier.
Read MoreOur baby has entered the world and our lives and we could not be happier.
Read MoreWe’re down to a handful of sleeps until my scheduled c-section.
Read MoreJunebug is still head-high and breech. But we’re finding some humour in the situation.
Read MoreScans in limbo and a chance to see our little Junebug’s face for the first time.
Read MoreWhen was the last time you really thought about what it means to be ‘healthy’ and ‘normal’? It’s naff, and I don’t feel the same way about it that I used to.
Read MoreA bit of a long post. Life has thrown a few extra punches our way in the last couple of weeks.
Read MoreNo good news.
Read MoreWe're having a weekend away and Junebug is helping us see the world with new eyes already.
Read MoreJunebug did some growing! I never thought that such teeny, tiny, incremental changes could feel so enormous.
Read MoreHeavy, light, heavy, light, heavy, light.
Read MoreA short antenatal check up.
Read MoreAfter a day of feeling calmer than usual, I was thinking about what it is that can keep you finding the positives in an otherwise shitty set of circumstances.
Read MoreAcknowledging bad habits is probably the first step to breaking them. I'm not quite there with my compulsive reading around the subject.
Read MoreI'm a sucker for the phrase, "If something seems too good to be true, it probably is." I'm trying not to be.
Read MoreI didn't think I could find things that would make me feel good during all of this. Luckily friends, family and of course, Erin, make that possible. Those are the good days.
Read MoreOur appointment with the midwife from the counselling team and learning more about our worst fears.
Read MoreA bit of a dramatic blog title, but it captures the sentiment of our latest ultrasound. I didn’t sleep the night before and we spent the morning trying to keep ourselves busy—music is helpful, so is tidying, puzzles, reading books that aren’t about babies, cooking, making nervous jokes about the situation.
Read MoreWhen all tests come back normal, it doesn't feel very normal.
Read MoreA bit about finding hope and being scared of numbers.
Read MoreHow this rough roller-coaster ride began at our 20-week anomaly scan.
Read MoreThe three of us, March 2018
Hello, my name is Cruz and I am pregnant with my first baby, lovingly addressed as Junebug—who is due June 2018.
I was born and live in Hong Kong. At my 20-week anomaly scan we found out our little Junebug’s long bones (arms and legs) were growing much slower than they should be, and their chest was also measuring small. That was our introduction to the world of skeletal dysplasia. Currently, as I write, we are waiting to find out whether our Junebug’s form of the condition is “compatible with life”.
We aren't losing hope. But talking about what we're going through, definitely helps.
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