And so Real Life begins.............
I hope this is what you are looking for. When I was thinking about becoming pregnant somewhere like this would have been great. When I became pregnant somewhere like this would have been fab to discuss my horrendous morning sickness - was I the only one?. When I developed high blood pressure in pregnancy somewhere like this would have been ideal and when I found myself in Neonatal / SCBU or MARS as I prefer to call it, we slowly realised we had a perfect and healthy baby girl, but with all the discomfort of a c-section operation (long past the morphine hazy stage) and all the worry and novelty of neonatal care and my partner running the gauntlet between me in HDU and baby bunny in SCBU, I would have appreciated the ability to refer here for kindred spirits.What I hope to create is a shortcut to real life advice about fertility, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, family and the many years that follow that stage. Because the books just don't do it - too technical, sometimes old-fashioned, a little narrow, just not relevant and I am just nosey, I want to know everything and as near to everything as I can get. I mean where's the chapter about the I got drunk at christmas party on a one night stand with someone I don't know or remember and I'm pregnant and I'm having the baby alone - didn't see anything on that. Or what about home birth - the beauty and the obvious horrors? Or indeed the chapter on I'm pregnant with the fourth, the fifth and anymore whooaa mamamia!! Or I'm nearly forty, I'm single and I want children? or I'm fifty and I'm pregnant! And oh I could just go on and on but the bottom line is these are real things that real people go through and other real people like me think about and want to talk about. I want to widen my field of experience by discussion rather than fateful and unfateful trial and error. Because sometimes that's just not appropriate is it but hey it's good to talk.
Beware I am also a brand new blogger and have big website / blog ideas that may take sometime to put into action. But I hope this first post gives you some idea of what Real Life Calling can be about. Let me know what you think and let me know if you even care? and I will dutifully respond and improve on this ambitious and nervous start.
Kind Regards
posted by AS @ 12:24 AM
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