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My Pregnancy Story with Azan Part 2

My Pregnancy Story with Azan Part 2

The day after we found out we were expecting, our relationship slid into an almost euphoric stage.  He really began to take care of me. He stepped up to the plate.  We did the preliminary doctor’s appointments to confirm the validity of the one dark pink line and a second faint pink line.  To our doctor’s mild amusement, the stick was right.  I was on my way to becoming an Ammu.  We can’t keep a secret We didn’t waste any time because we are oversharers and incredibly unable to keep a secret.  By “we” I really mean me. But you…

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My Pregnancy Story with Azan – Part 1

My Pregnancy Story with Azan – Part 1

How I found out… The husband was washing the last of the mugs as our friends had just left our little condo after an early dinner and post dinner chill session.  I was paralized in my tiny ensuite bathroom.   One dark pink line and a second faint pink line.   Maybe I should do it again. I frantically flipped the panels of the instructions to troubleshoot what the faint line could suggest. “Pregnant, even if the second line is faint.” – OMG. Deep breath.  I could feel my face getting flush. The blood rushing up to my cheeks, I thought my…

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How to Travel Screen Free with a Toddler

How to Travel Screen Free with a Toddler

This past week we flew from Toronto to Cuba with a toddler. It was a three hour flight and I knew the plane was going to be too small to have personal screens at each seat.  My son has a pretty boisterous personality and constantly needs to be engaged in something or another. I was determined to not bring an iPad with me because we have phased out iPads in his regular day to day. (We have used it in the past to zone him out during meal times to make it faster and more efficient to feed him.)  For…

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How I Got Baby to Sleep Through the Night

How I Got Baby to Sleep Through the Night

A baby who sleeps soundly through the night is a new mom’s dream – see what I did there? Many of us spend countless nights up with our little ones in a daze as the baby wakes up wanting cuddles, milk or worse, to play. Will the day ever come when we can sleep a whole seven hours without a little one asking for some love? Or are we resigning ourselves to be Zombie-Moms? My endeavour to sleep through the night came to fruition when my baby was about 11 weeks old. That was my very first night. The morning…

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One month of missed moments…

One month of missed moments…

In the last month I’ve missed so much sitting in my cubicle. Every day I’ve called to check up on you during my fifteen, half and fifteen.  Each call gave me an update of your daily routine. “He’s eating his oatmeal now” “He’s making a huge mess of my kitchen now… Oh.. He dropped a potato” “He won’t step on the grass, he doesn’t like how the blades of grass prick him” These little status updates keep me going from one break to another, sometimes making my day go by at a snail’s pace because I want to get my…

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