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The road to rainbow baby

This is not a post you have to read, for me it just feels good to write it down. She has arrived! After nine long months she has arrived! Our little rainbow baby, our little miracle: Nynka Lynn 💛 We are beyond happy and totally in love. We are so very grateful that we were blessed to have this healthy little girl grow inside of me and join us on the outside in this world! It is something so special that no one can ever take for granted, it really is like a miracle! The road was tough... People say "I loved my pregnancy" and "in hindsight doesn't it feel it went by so fast?". I did not love my pregnancy, I was extremely happy I was pregnant but I definitely did not love it. Part of the reason for that was being sick every day for the first 3 months and having such bad pain in the last 3 months because of my abs tearing and intercostal nerve irritation that I had to lay down all the time to manage the intense pain (this was until she finally positioned

Our precious little miracle has arrived!

Today 1 month ago exactly, our little daughter Nynka Lynn entered the world! On September 20 2019 at 16:51, weighing 3800 grams, she was born at the Foothills Hospital. We love her to the moon and back and think she is absolutely perfect! Switching to Dutch... Mijn moeder was 18 September net aangekomen, wat perfect uitkwam omdat ik de 19e werd ingeleid. Na 24 uur bevallen is er voor gekozen om een keizersnede te doen omdat ik een baarmoeder ontsteking had opgelopen in de afgelopen uren en ik koorts had + de kleine meid een verhoogde hartslag en de antibiotica niet aansloeg om beide naar beneden te krijgen. Over perfect uitkomen gesproken, wat was ik blij dat mem er was! De eerste twee weken kon ik bijna niks! Elke ochtend moest ik "Cam!" of "mem!" roepen om hulp te krijgen met uit bed te komen. Vervolgens kwam de ontsteking ook nog eens terug een week of twee na de bevalling, dus dat verlengde de pijn ook nog eens, zucht. Bedankt Cam, mem en Don voor alle ze