Riley Eve Casey

Turns out that Riley is going to make an appearance sooner rather than later. We met with our Obstetrician last week to discuss many things but the one big thing that was on our minds was the date that Jess would be induced. What we were expecting was that the Obstetrician may have to consult with the Cardiologists, Midwives, Neonatal Specialists to make all the stars align so that the date works for everyone. This was not the case. He asked us point blank "So what date would you like?". His first suggestion was that Jess would get induced on the 7th January and Riley would be born the very next day. However that day also happens to be Jess' brother Caleb's birthday. He probably wouldn't have cared at all but we thought we would try to avoid Uncle/Niece combined birthday parties in the future by delaying it an extra day (Can you imagine the combination of birthday themes like Barbie/V8's or Peppa Pig/BBQ??).  In the end we came up with Jess being induced on Ja...

The past week has just been a whirlwind filled with lots of Christmas dinners with family and friends, a baby shower (it was fantastic by the way! Thanks to everyone involved), farewells and lots of goodbye hugs.  In fact I prided myself on the fact that I had managed to avoid shedding any tears through all of it. But then Monday came around, the day we would be leaving for Brisbane. We left our house and it just seemed to hit us both at the same time that we wouldn't be returning to it for quite some time. Then there were even more farewells at the airport as we were about to board our plane. Yeah I cracked. Pride comes before the fall; oh well. It was emotional but we pushed on and knew that our journey was only just beginning. We had spent so much time preparing for our move to Brisbane; it felt strange to think that now we were moving onto preparing for Riley. We arrived safely in Brisbane and made our way to our unit right near the Hospital (after a quick trip to Max Brenners ...

"It must be difficult". Those four words we seem to hear every so often. They are spoken by people who upon hearing the news of the journey we are about to walk through; are trying to understand what it would be like. Sometimes I feel like people expect us to be depressed or continually sad. That's because it's how they believe they would react in similar circumstances which is completely understandable. The strange thing is that throughout this, I feel like we have been really blessed. It doesn't look like it straight away but we really have. I felt like instead of just sharing with you how Riley is doing (though I will do that don't worry!), I want to share with you the wonderful things that have happened over this short period of time to give you some perspective. Yes this can be difficult and we haven't even gotten to the hardest part yet, but there is also a lot of things to be thankful for already... We are thankful because we didn't even kn...