I don't know much about how I came into the world... mum tends to clam up and change the subject whenever I ask. What I do know is that I was born via c-sec under GA at a private hospital in Cairns, at term (not sure what my EDD was), and was breastfed for a short time (whether that means 'until going home from hospy' or 'for 6 weeks' or what, I don't know, she's tetchy about BF talk, too!).
My little brother was also born via c-sec under GA, at the same hospital in Cairns, and flown to Brisbane immediately as he was premature and had fluid on his lungs - apparently at the time ('89) no hospitals in Cairns were equipped to deal with whatever complications he had (I believe he also had a hernia which was operated on later?) so Dad had to make the decision to go with him to Brisbane and leave poor mum to wake up on her own with no idea what had happened I only just found that out recently, I knew he was born premmie and with fluid on the lungs, I didn't know he'd had to go all the way to Brisbane. I do remember visiting him in hospital, he was in a humidicrib, and both my parents were there so he must have come back from Brisbane and spent some time in the Cairns hospital before we all went home - I turned 3 six days after he was born so the memories are pretty vague.
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