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Tag Archives: progress
Open Your Heart / Invitation Only / Fearing To Thrive
“But what else can play in to our failure to thrive? What about fearing to thrive?
What if life’s blows have actually caused us to retreat back in to that closed bud? – that even when the opportunity and breathing space in between life’s trying times and circumstances arises, all attempts at opening up are thwarted by our own fears?
Fear is a killer. Fear can paralyse us, can’t it? Fear is like an industrial strength weed-killer, that kills everything it touches: it doesn’t discriminate between beauty or bramble, flower or thorn. It will go for everything and in our own lives it will eventually lead to shut-down.” Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged blossoming, breakthrough, Christianity, deliverance, endurance, faith, faithfulness, flourishing, God, God's faithfulness, God's invitation, God's love, God's Word, grace, grief, growth, hardship, hurt, Jesus, open heart, open your heart, openness, pain, patience, progress, struggle, Vulnerability
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Phew!
I am sitting back in ‘our spot’ in the Special Care nursery at our local hospital Neonatal Unit – Toby’s home for the last one month and three days (minus a rather ‘hairy’ two night sleep-over elsewhere!) All the tubes … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged baby, children's health, faith, feeding, God's goodness, hernia, hope, horizon, hospital, inguinal hernia, neonatal unit, NNU, operation, oxygen saturation levels, parenting, premature baby, premature birth, prematurity, progress, Special care unit, tongue tie division, tongue-tie, trust, trusting God
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30 October 2013 – Some progress…
Ed and I prayed specifically on Monday that God would put people across Toby’s path who would make the right phone calls, send the right letters etc. in order to move things along. I arrived at hospital yesterday to discover … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged answered prayer, baby, children's health, hernia, hospital, inguinal hernia, neonatal unit, NNU, operation, parenting, prayer, premature baby, premature birth, prematurity, progress
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A most confusing day…
It has been such a mixed week. On Wednesday Toby turned a massive corner with his feeds – literally overnight. He is now waking up and demanding every feed and loving to suckle. Taking complete bottles and feeding really well … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged anti-climax, baby, children's health, coming home, disappointment, discharged, faith, feeding, God's faithfulness, God's goodness, God's plan, hernia, hospital, inguinal hernia, miscommunication, neonatal unit, NNU, operation, parenting, prayer, premature baby, premature birth, prematurity, progress, rooming in, SCBU, setback, shifting emotions, Special Care Baby Unit, timing, trust, trusting God
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26 October 2013 – He’s coming home!
I still won’t believe it until it actually happens – but I roomed in with Toby last night, with a view to taking him home TODAY! I won’t believe it until he is over the threshold of our home and … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged baby, children's health, coming home, feeding, hospital, neonatal unit, NNU, parenting, premature baby, progress
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No more wires…
No more wires on Toby… Makes for MUCH easier cuddles. YES! Asher means ‘happy’ – his second name perfectly describes how he makes me feel with each little step of progress.
Posted in Toby
Tagged Asher, baby, children's health, happy, hospital, neonatal unit, NNU, no more wires, parenting, premature birth, prematurity, progress, wires on baby
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