A Lifetyle Blog
Strange Practice - by Vivian Shaw Greta Helsing inherited her family's highly specialized and highly peculiar medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills: vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although she barely makes ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's been groomed for since childhood.Until a sect of murderous monks ... Read the Post...
Initially I had planned for an all natural home birth, but after trying very very hard to deliver my baby at home, this was not to be, and I had to go to the hospital for an emergency c-section. I had put together a hospital bag just in case and I was so glad I had. All I had to do was grab the bag and go. It makes all the difference especially if you're not expecting to need to go to the hospital. Added onto this was the fact that Covid-19 was ... Read the Post...
“Just give it time…” I heard this so many times after the delivery of my son, but I knew something wasn’t right. Diastasis recti is apparently very common in women after they've had a baby. However, the only reason I even knew it existed was because my amazing hairstylist (who I haven’t seen in far too long… big shout out to Jenn at Doria Hair salon in Surrey) mentioned it when she was pregnant. It is truly a miracle that this odd bit of ... Read the Post...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times […]” I want to begin by saying that my birth story is just that, mine and everyone will have a different experience with a different story to tell. Your experience and your story belongs to you. I just wanted to share mine in order to show that we as human beings and as women are strong and capable even in moments when we may think that we’re not. Of course I had an image of what I ... Read the Post...
