Does Absence Make Cyber Hearts Grow Fonder?

Apologies to all my adoring fans who have been waiting, forlorn by their feed readers, for me to update this blog. I have an excellent, and rather fitting, excuse for my lack of writing during what has been a busy time for birth lovers in Australia: I'm pregnant.

While this was one very planned, long awaited second pregnancy, so far it has not been a pleasant journey. After a few short weeks of joy the sickness set in. As with my first, I have spent about ten weeks suffering chronic morning sickness, or hyperemesis gravidarum. The worst of it is over now and I'm currently enjoying mild morning sickness.

I've missed a lot of action while curled up in bed with my trusty bucket. A South Australian Coroner decided a child born not breathing and without a heartbeat, was in fact alive because a machine detected pulseless electrical activity. The Australian Labour Party ousted our elected Prime Minister and replaced him with our first woman Prime Minister. On July 1st the maternity reforms that spell the end of independent midwifery came into effect (see also). And an Australian celebrity's planned homebirth ended with a hospital transfer.

I look forward to sharing my thoughts on these events and more in the coming months, perhaps with a sprinkle of my own growing belly photos. But if it turns out that my posts are few and far between at least you will know why.