The Hut Chronicles

Every year, 15 million babies are born premature worldwide. More than one million of these babies die, and many more face serious, lifelong ...

Maggie: A quick trip to Launceston meant a visit to the monkey park on a cold winters morning. It was nice to watch the girls wonder a...

Nearly a month late, but a little post to remember Maggie and Elisabeth's 2nd birthday celebrations. I got excited mid year, and wa...

I opened up the deep freeze in the shed this morning, and it is still full of carefully labelled plastic pouches. Reading the dates and t...

Today the girls are one! They woke me around 4am for a sneaky breast feed, and I kept both girls in the bed between us. I slept right throug...

Sometimes I thought maybe we could prolong the pregnancy another week, we were after all on day four in hospital.  With each day I survived ...

I woke early, the past few days caught up with me, and feeling alone I cried. I cried that at best they thought the babies would be born wit...

This was the view from my bed as dawn lightened my room. I was so glad that warming bed remained unused. Rob awoke. The midwives started try...

I felt like absolute rubbish on Saturday morning. It was another really hot day. Rob headed outside to weed in the garden. I hid from the he...

I woke on Friday morning and felt so tired. I had no enthusiasm for getting up and facing what was going to be a scorching hot day, with a w...

During that last week at work I was rushing to get tasks ticked off my list but I grew increasingly uncomfortable. I really hoped I was just...

I have been meaning to share a bit more of the girls' birth story. But it just seemed to be too much to write about in one post. Overwhe...

Two babies sleeping. Must be time for a quick Friday flowers. Foxgloves Poppy A rootstock rose from a failed graft I think. Chicago Peace I ...

Before I was pregnant, and even during my somewhat truncated pregnancy, I often wondered if I would be a good Mama. Not many of my friends w...