SweetSimpleJoys

  Lovelier of lovely things are they On this earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. – William C. Bryant   This might be the last time that I will write about our little angel Liam. It’s not that I have stopped mourning for [...]

Today, our angel Liam would’ve been a month old already and I can’t help but think about all the “would’ve been’s” that we would’ve been doing or would’ve done if he was with us. Maybe, if he was with us, I would be too busy taking care of him and wouldn’t have the time to [...]

During my entire pregnancy, I endured a number of pains. Physical pain, mental anguish, emotional stress – I experienced them all in various forms and levels. But if given a chance, I’ll gladly go through it again, even bear twice as much pain — if I only can ensure that at the end of my pregnancy, I [...]

It was D’s birthday when we found out that we were going to have a baby boy. D, naturally, became a beaming expectant father. During the whole ordeal at the hospital where I gave birth, D was constantly on his feet, answering to every errand the doctors and other hospital staff asked him to do. I [...]

MECONIUM is a thick, sticky, greenish-black substance. It is the medical term for the newborn infant’s first stools. Meconium is made of amniotic fluid, mucus, lanugo (the fine hair that covers the baby’s body), bile, and cells that have been shed from the skin and the intestinal tract. [SOURCE] MECONIUM ASPIRATION SYNDROME. In some cases, [...]