Lochie

4 hours old At my routine 20 week scan I could tell that something wasn’t quite right as the technician kept rescanning and measuring my baby – but of course she wasn’t allowed to tell me anything,  I had to wait until my midwife got results and she told me that his long bones in both arms and legs were measuring very short.  Two days later I was referred to a specialist at Hastings hospital... [Read more]

Our Journey with Kate and Isabelle

  I woke up on a Saturday morning, 24 weeks pregnant with twins, bleeding but without any pain.  I was flown to Wellington hospital and the following day, Sunday 10th June 2007, our daughters Isabelle and Kate arrived by emergency cesarean section. There was a NICU team in delivery who stabilised the girls before wheeling them off to NICU.  I had never visited the NICU and knew nothing about it;... [Read more]

Eva’s Story

After 2 miscarriages, 4 years of infertility, 5 surgeries and 3 failed rounds of fertility treatment, a miracle happened and we conceived spontaneously in August 2007.  We were over the moon, after such a long time struggling with infertility and miscarriage, our dream of having a healthy beautiful baby was going to come true.  I was convinced everything would go smoothly for us as we had already... [Read more]

Jaycob and Gabriel

Mark and I found out we were going to have a baby a month before our wedding in April 2007.  We were absolutely overjoyed as we have been together for 6 years and were planning to start our family straight after our wedding.  On our wedding day Mark announced to everyone during his speech that that I was 10 weeks pregnant!  Everyone was surprised and so happy for us!  After we arrived home from... [Read more]