Journey To Baby Archives

December 14, 2015

Journey To Baby: My Labor & Delivery Story (Video Post)

Sweet Potatoes, biko, I am so terribly sorry for not blogging much last week. It was such a busy week for me. I'm currently working on a passion project that I will tell you all about later. Meanwhile, hello labor and delivery story! I recorded this video last week Saturday, then I went to bed and remembered a bunch of things that I forgot to mention, so on Sunday evening, we rerecorded the video. Since that Sunday till now, I have been trying to edit it, but the thing no gree me. While I Read More

November 9, 2015

Meet My Baby, Ada Verastic

Here she is in all her glory. I had big ideas of the kind of [first] pictures I wanted to take of my baby, and I did not even care how much it cost. I made the appointment to go take the pictures on Wednesday, October 28th 2015, which was a day after her naming ceremony. But when that morning came, I felt like I had been hit by a truck. I didn't want to wake up just yet, and I definitely didn't want to wake my baby up and give her a bath. Well, grandma would have given her a bath. But it still Read More

October 26, 2015

Dear Sweet Potatoes, I’m A Mommy Now

The rumors are true. I, Vera Ezimora, am now a mommy. Igwe and I welcomed our baby girl on Tuesday, October 20th 2015 at 5:19 PM. She weighed 8 pounds and 10 oz and measured 20.5 inches. For those who measure weight in kilograms, she weighed about 3.8 kilograms. No, she was not a small baby at all. But then, we cannot be surprised. A lion can never give birth to a goat. Ha! For now, she's a yellow paw paw baby, but there's no telling what color she will eventually be. When I show you Read More

October 19, 2015

That Time This Lady Asked If I Was Having Fertility Issues

This isn't something that happened a long time ago oh. In fact, it was quite recent. So, I was at a home-event of a friend where there were lots of friends and acquaintances, and that was when this lady decided we should have this conversation in the kitchen (I am not aware that anyone else heard our conversation). But first, let me tell you about this lady. She's someone I've known for years. When I say that I have known her, I don't mean that we are friends, or that we are close, but we Read More

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