BABY
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Here’s a funny story. What began as an ordinary workday ended with an unexpected addition to our family—a premature arrival who was far too eager to enter the world, completely unprepared. That unpreparedness was mine. It was birth trauma in disguise, leaking both figuratively and quite literally. It’s amusing how every pregnant woman carries a…
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If you’re not a parent yet or not hitched, this post is also for you. Romanticizing residency is all about the little things. What counts the most is being grateful for those trivial moments. Like, notwithstanding waking up in the middle of the night, at dawn, when the sun is set to rise, and my…
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Week 1: The classic week for “The Baby Blues.” I woke up one minute after barely pushing myself into my parent’s BMW, fighting off a severe contraction that sent me into a foreign dimension, to see my little peanut for the first time. He was the most beautiful thing. The undersized body parts were to…
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If you’re reading this, I have been brewing my beautiful little one since October 17, 2022, or at least that’s when my pregnancy test came positive. The idea of me being pregnant strikes me like a crazy woman. Not that it was impossible. It was just a different form of what is beautiful, amazing, and…
Beyond the Scrubs 