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The beginning: Finley's birth story, part 4

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So back to the birth story...

30 November 2006, 7.30am
We phoned Liza a little bit later in the morning to keep her in the loop with the progress. Contractions were still irregular so she told us to come through to Ballito for a check-up. I remember Nadine being worried about us driving all the way out there since things can progress quite quickly. But I told her that contractions were still quite irregular and that active labour hadn't started – I was still in phase 1.

The beginning: Finley's birth story, part 3

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Liza welcomed us into the apartment. It was a rental she used for meeting clients in Durban since her practice was in Ballito. We sat down and she offered us some tea. Before it was cool enough to drink, I knew that she would be the one to assist us in our home birth.

The beginning: Finley's birth story, part 2

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Part 2

So before I carry on with the birth story, here is a bit of background information for those of you who don't already know.

The beginning: Finley's birth story, part 1

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Two of my closest friends and my cousin are all pregnant. They vary from 13 weeks to 28 weeks to 40 weeks and are all in Joburg, which makes me a little sad because I would love to have seen them during this magical time in their lives. It's also made me the teeniest bit envious and enormously broody. Brad insists that if I remember my pregnancy correctly I would never want to be pregnant again. And he does have a point.

A birthday boy (and girl)

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Finley and Rupa ignore their birthday cake
We hit a milestone on saturday, Finley turned 1 year. Mandy started the build up with a blow by blow account starting on the 30 November (although, her dedication was not 100%, since she didn't wake me up at 1am). We threw a party out at Alex and Ed's (and Rupa and Jasmin) house, since it is a very beautiful, hand made, cob house, outside of town. Rupa and Finley missed sharing a birth day by a few hours, but Alex and Mandy did share a 1am water breaking (not sure of what the appropriate name is).

Just Another Weekend

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I hopped in a car on friday morning, populated by family friends of Emily Stockil, and skeedled off to the berg for a fantastic weekend. All was in order to celebrate Emily's coming of age, her 21st birthday.

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Whijo.net is the online internets of Bradley Whittington, Amanda Joseph, and our son Finley James Whittington. "Whijo" is 29% Whittington, 33% Joseph, and 37% Internet. Quite Web 2.0 of us.