19/11/2025
Our new baby girl is here! ❤️ Juliette Veronica arrived at the Mater on 8/10 at 3:30pm, 3.19kg and 49cm. She is doing very well, healthy and happy!
The rest of my pregnancy went very well. I loved the yoga & daily breathing & visualisations, we practised our affirmations, and Michael's support role! I felt ready and quite confident ☺️
After 40 weeks + 1 day, I had to have an induction (which I didn't really want) but came to accept my particular risk factors. After monitoring baby’s movements most of the day, she said that she strongly advised I have an unplanned caesarean.
All went well, and the team said she was covered in poo, which is probably why she was showing less movement. Baby passed all her tests and is thriving, which is just the best thing ever. What a trooper.
I'm going well and recovering. I feel that our prep with She Births helped enormously in our ability to cope with uncertainty, highly emotional and physical interventions, and surrender.
We worked as a team to communicate with each other and to make sure that we were in sync with our goals and values. It was pretty challenging for me to accept that I would have to forego vaginal delivery, but I knew that bub's health is number one and that "every birth can be a beautiful birth".
The staff made sure the environment was as positive as possible, encouraging me throughout, skin to skin time, and then with a monitor screen next to me showing Michael cutting the cord (after letting it pulse), and showed us the placenta.
The recovery room then allowed more relaxed skin to skin time and Bub crawled to my breast, sucked strongly, and hasn't stopped since LOL.
We are just so ecstatic, humbled, and amazed beyond words that we are finally parents and have this perfect little baby. Lots of snuggles and loving gazes are being enjoyed here.
Thank you Nadine for your caring, knowledgeable support and expertise during our pregnancy journey - we will be forever grateful for finding you.
From a very proud Mummy and Daddy, Rebecca & Michael ☺️ xoxo