Back Story – Scroll to skip to The Birth Itself People get pregnant and give birth and have babies and make their version of a family for all kinds of reasons. They have different ways they get there, and different stories to tell along the way. After a decade of attending births myself as a doula, here is my own… Read more →
Category: Pregnancy, Breast Cancer & Staying Wild
I was made for birth & life & death
There are so many posts in my mind left unwritten. My detailed birth story for one, more on postpartum life and falling in love with my new baby. But life is moving faster than I can write about while soaking up every minute with my sweet new baby, now almost 5 months old! When I first started blogging about my… Read more →
She’s Here! Birth, Postpartum, Cancer Update & Radioactivity(!)
She’s here! For those of you who haven’t heard, Kaedra Margaret Kaur Rooprai joined us January 9th, after a fast and furious and unexpected labour at 35 weeks plus 4 days. Birth story to come, but suffice to say that birth was as wild, powerful, incredible, and strong as I had thought it would be, and it went as perfectly… Read more →
Happy New Year: Surgery Done!
I breathe a sigh of relief today as I sit drain-tube-free, surgery complete, and finally on what feels like a “break” from treatments from now until after birth. Still bandaged up and sore but feeling a version of finished-for-now… the relief I think everyone expected me to feel after my final chemotherapy treatment but I didn’t, knowing I had one… Read more →
Chemo Finished! – Pregnancy & Breast Cancer Update
I had my final round of chemotherapy today and I have to say I am overjoyed to know I will never have to see this red medicine (the doxorubicin part of the doxorubin/cyclophosphamide treatment I was on) being pumped through my veins ever again. This is partially because after 6 rounds, I’ve reached my lifetime cap for using this medication;… Read more →