I don’t often talk about the unbelievably heartbreaking things I sometimes see at work, or the countless, amazing families I am blessed to meet every day. I was one of the many staff working at Sick Kids on a warm July night when I was witness to a parent's worst nightmare, the preventable death of a child from a motor vehicle accident. I was immensely proud to be a physician at Sick Kids that night, as we worked together with the first responders as a team to support one another in the aftermath.
I have to admit that when I was pregnant with my first, Dylan, I was terrified of labour, the pain it would likely cause, and, of course, the inevitable tearing I would endure. I was the first of my friends to have a baby and had no one to rely on to find out how bad it really was. So, like many women out there, I assumed I would have the worst birth ever, with awful pain, a long labour and many weeks of excruciating healing. Do other women think like this?
I am expecting a baby. For the third time. Yep, as a busy mom of two toddlers, my husband and I decided it would be a great idea to do it all over again. Did I mention I work full time as a community paediatrician and emergency medicine doctor at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto? And maintain a demanding blog and website (DrDina.ca). And have two toddlers. And two rambunctious dogs.
Oh and have I mentioned that I HATE being pregnant?
