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		<title>Marriage Milestone: Second Wedding Anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our wedding anniversary was last January 30, but I only saw this image last night, after I asked if he can copy some files over to my Shared Documents folder. He&#8217;s not really the type who will do this kind of stuff &#8212; you know, sneaking in to my computer, cellphone or any personal belongings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liam&#8217;s Life in Documents and Moving On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 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. &#8211; William C. Bryant &#160; This might be the last time that I will write about our little angel Liam. It&#8217;s not that I have stopped mourning for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Angel Inside Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When people ask why I didn&#8217;t take a picture of Liam, I tell them that I don&#8217;t want to be reminded of how he struggled for his life at the NICU and what he looked like with all the machines connected to him. And I certainly don&#8217;t want to take a picture of him after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sweetsimplejoys.com/motherhood-parenting/the-angel-inside-me/</link>
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		<title>What Makes a Mother?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, our angel Liam would&#8217;ve been a month old already and I can&#8217;t help but think about all the &#8220;would&#8217;ve been&#8217;s&#8221; that we would&#8217;ve been doing or would&#8217;ve done if he was with us. Maybe, if he was with us, I would be too busy taking care of him and wouldn&#8217;t have the time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sweetsimplejoys.com/motherhood-parenting/what-makes-a-mother/</link>
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		<title>A Mother&#8217;s Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my entire pregnancy, I endured a number of pains. Physical pain, mental anguish, emotional stress &#8211; I experienced them all in various forms and levels. But if given a chance, I&#8217;ll gladly go through it again, even bear twice as much pain &#8212; if I only can ensure that at the end of my pregnancy, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sweetsimplejoys.com/motherhood-parenting/a-mothers-pain/</link>
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		<title>A Father&#8217;s Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was D&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sweetsimplejoys.com/motherhood-parenting/a-fathers-love/</link>
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		<title>Meconium-stained</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MECONIUM is a thick, sticky, greenish-black substance. It is the medical term for the newborn infant&#8217;s first stools. Meconium is made of amniotic fluid, mucus, lanugo (the fine hair that covers the baby&#8217;s body), bile, and cells that have been shed from the skin and the intestinal tract. [SOURCE] MECONIUM ASPIRATION SYNDROME. In some cases, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sweetsimplejoys.com/motherhood-parenting/meconium-stained/</link>
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		<title>Our Sweet Angel Liam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 21, 2011: It was the eve of Liam&#8217;s cremation. I couldn&#8217;t sleep so I thought of writing a short note for him that I will ask to be burned together with his body: Dear Baby Liam, I&#8217;m sorry for the way things had happened. It wasn&#8217;t something that we expected and had hoped for. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sweetsimplejoys.com/motherhood-parenting/our-sweet-angel-liam/</link>
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		<title>I Gave Birth to an Angel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is supposed to be my due date, but I have already given birth last December 19, 2011 to a beautiful baby boy. And we named him Hans Liam (Hans means &#8220;God is gracious&#8221; and Liam, unwavering protector&#8221;). But God felt our baby was too beautiful and turned him to an angel. The word pain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sweetsimplejoys.com/motherhood-parenting/i-gave-birth-to-an-angel/</link>
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		<title>Pregnant Me: False Alarm and the Waiting Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was awaken by a sharp, throbbing pain on my left abdomen early morning of Sunday, December 11. It was accompanied by a more-painful-than-usual contractions on my tummy and pressure on my hips and lower back. At first, I thought I just needed to go to the bathroom, but after almost 30 minutes of trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sweetsimplejoys.com/motherhood-parenting/pregnant-me-false-alarm-and-the-waiting-game/</link>
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