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I enjoy writing, it is a medium of self expression like no other.It is my goal to write about topics that I can truthfully relate to through personal experience.

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Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Parents of a stillborn child: 8 of 14

On May 8th 2006 my daughter Camila Amalia died in utero at 41 weeks of my pregnancy. After having gone through a painful birth experience with my 1st child, I wanted to be in control of this pregnancy. I wanted the best for Camila & I. Camila's gestation was uneventful altogether. At 41 weeks, during my last visit to the...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Childbirth & Labor C-section recovery tips: 5 of 7

C-section. It is simply a technological advance that is either overdone by Doctors, used in cases of emergency (saving lives) or planned ahead by women who prefer major surgery to a natural birth. I had two. One for my first child. My labor was stopped with muscle relaxers, later induced and when things turned ugly and my so...
Health & Fitness > Health Risks Are vaccines safe?: 3 of 4

I have a four year old son. Unfortunately I did not inform myself thoroughly about vaccines until he was about 1 year old. So he received most of the rigorously scheduled shots until his 18 month doctor's visit. At 9 months, he received the DTAP vaccine among others and had a reaction of a swollen arm at the site of the vacc...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Pregnancy Is knowing potential problems in pregnancy more helpful or harmful for the mother?: 11 of 13

The thrill of seeing the positive mark on the pregnancy test was sweetly electrifying, I was pregnant with my second child! The birth of my first child had been very out of control and the turn out was an emergency c-section. This time, everything was going to be great. Naturally, I made my first doctor's appointment to ensu...