My second round I managed to get through a full stim cycle and have eggs collected and an embryo was transferred and I got my beautiful little Alessio…

We did sleep school (QE2 - twice) and all the sleep programs with Aleena and implementing anything that made her upset hurt my heart too much…

I’m so conscious and grateful at the moment of the fact that we’re still in this golden period…

When I was left sitting alone in the birthing suite, I started hand expressing and to my shock, colostrum started coming straight out on my second squeeze…

I initially had a lot of guilt because the specialist explained common reasons being family history, breach birth, and first born daughter…

Watching Jack be the amazing father I knew he would be has been the best…

The tape had put hormones in my system so the doctors said they couldn’t do anything else on that day and we would wait to see if it progressed…

As you can imagine, with spontaneous hospital visits, that can span a week, there are some haywire toddlers with BIG emotions to come home to.

From about 5 months we threw away all the 'training' and 'googling' of solutions...

Looking back over the last 14 months of being a mum, and even from the moment I fell pregnant, the hardest part was doing it all without my mum…

Huxley brought new and different challenges to navigate. This has included sleep...

Both of my babes were born at Queanbeyan hospital and I cannot recommend it highly enough!…

Me and my then partner were about 28 and had been together for a few years and decided it was time.

I honestly thought my journey to become a mum was going to be far more complicated than it was…

Having preeclampsia, my body changed even more as I carried a lot of fluid…

I first met my baby, hooked up to a million wires and tubes in NICU after begging maternity staff and my husband threatening to push my bed there himself…

We started trying for a baby just after my visa got granted. I was pregnant straight away but unfortunately it turned out to be a molar pregnancy…

I am so lucky to have both mine and Sam’s family within 20 minutes from our house, who are very involved with the kids…

I’ve gone from sleeping a solid 9-10 hours a night to adjusting to broken sleep every 2-3 hours, but surprisingly we are coping well…

I have always tried to have a glass half full approach to life and there are positives of having a deaf child LOL.