January 2015 – The Milk Memoirs

Morgan-Lee’s birth story, Part 3: Meeting my care providers for the first time at 38 weeks !

Posted on January 22, 2015 by mommabeartrax

8+ months preggo, about two weeks away from making one of the most pivotal decisionsof my life.

Yip, you read right. Two weeks away from my estimated due date, and I was yet to meet the wonderful people who’d be delivering our child. No, I’m not some sort of procrastinator that waited for the last minute. And no, I wasn’t being irresponsible about the care of our child…In fact, I was doing one of the most responsible acts I could have ever done as a parent: Ensuring that baby and I got the right kind of care we, personally, were searching for.

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Bread and Butter: A kid-friendly eatery where you can have your bread buttered on both sides and eat your cake too!

Posted on January 20, 2015 by mommabeartrax

So after eyeing this joint for more than two years, I finally made my way to bread and butter in November last year, and have been back multiple times ever since. And if you ever go there (or keep reading), you’d understand why… Continue reading →

The Galileo: a movie night under the summer night sky!

Posted on January 16, 2015 by mommabeartrax

Awesome, innit?

Looking for a brilliantly romantic, that’s also super chilled out date night ideas? Then look no further than The Galileo Open air cinema! It took some doing (good babysitters are so rare!) with several attempts (thanks, super gale force winds), so we were pretty chuffed with our mom ‘n dad night out at the movies. But this wasn’t just any ol’ movie date; Hell’s no! It was Continue reading →

Morgan-Lee’s birth story Part 2: The hunt for a midwife and good doctor

Posted on January 15, 2015 by mommabeartrax

Two beached whales: Completely chilled out at 25 weeks, on babymoon and still hopeful of the gynae we had selected…oh, such misplaced hope.PS. For sensitive viewers: that is NOT a real whale, guys!

If you haven’t yet read the unforeseen series of events that lead up to this point where Im 37 weeks pregnant and on the hunt for a professional care provider to deliver my baby,I suggest you first read that post here, then come back here to see what happened next!

Walking out on our doctor at 37 weeks of pregnancy isn’t the most likeliest of decisions for anyone to make. But we weren’t more sure of ourselves the day we did. However, having nothing in hand was obviously Continue reading →