We had gone to my gynaecologist Dr Basson for a routine check-up. Its 9:00 in the morning on the 2 April 2012 and I was 36 weeks pregnant with the girls and due to give birth via C-section two days later. I went to pee in a small tub, for the doctor’s assistant to check that everything was still okay. At this point I had been visiting Dr Basson every two weeks, and this particular
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I’m always the mom (and family) that is the last to arrive at any event or function. Leaving the house on time with three kids can be a mission. I’m sure that my friends and family judge me for it. I don’t do it on purpose ofcourse. There are so many things that I have to do first before even thinking of leaving the house. Okay so here’s why I’m always late. A semi-kind of
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Life lately: Oh man this was a crazy few weeks. On Friday the 04th May, we got home from work, and almost immediately Zia starts crying and complained about her cheek and throat area paining. It looked a little swollen. I gave her some pain medication and she was okay for a while after until in the middle of the night. She was scream crying and said that the side of her cheek and throat was
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“Abieda, what it’s like to have twins? I can imagine it must be crazy, or hectic”. I get this question a lot with this response accompanied all in the same breathe. And the answer is yes is it crazy and hectic, but it’s also special because they are special and so unique. So I thought to tell you once and for all what it’s like to have twins. So different – the girls look completely
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Life lately: I’ve been feeling super uninspired about working out lately. I’ve been going back and forth in my mind about why the hell I’m procrastinating when it comes to working out. Literally every single day I would tell myself ‘okay today I’m going to start’ but then life happens or I’m lazy and my bed happens and I’d rather lay on the bed and watch the crime and investigation channel than working out. So
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As a mom you don’t always have time to do the things you love because there is always other things family related that must be attended to. I know that when I’m being over worked and under taken cared of is when I constantly feeling drained, frustrated and unhappy. Not necessarily with my family life, but rather with my overall being because I’ve been giving myself 100% to my work, my family, my children, my
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Story time! For as long as I can remember I’ve had really bad eye sight, but somehow I’ve managed to not wear specs until I got engaged. That’s when my eye sight was really bad and it came to the point where I no longer could go about my day without specs. With my first pregnancy, my eye sight had deteriorated considerably, and with my second pregnancy, it was at its worst. So last year
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Hi, my name is Abieda and I’m a working mom with adorable twin girls and a husband whom I adore. The sole reason for this blog is to express my feelings about daily happenings as life can be rather chaotic most times.
