Welcome!
Are you pregnant? Do you feel lonely or isolated sometimes? Are you a pregnant expat woman that would like to meet other pregnant expat women? Do you wonder if what you are feeling or going through is normal? Would you like to know how other pregnant expat women living in Mozambique feel about being away from home? Do you wonder about the birth and what options are out there? Are you thinking about giving birth in Maputo? Nelspruit? Back home? Would you like to feel more informed about your options in birthing? Do you wonder how your baby is developing and if he or she can hear your voice? Do you feel like interacting with other pregnant women? Are you uncertain about which doctor to go to? Are you wondering about a midwife and if they exist in Maputo or in Nelspruit? Do you know what a doula is?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should come! I have experienced 2 pregnancies as an expat in Maputo and can relate to how you are feeling. Let’s get together and share our feelings and experiences. Let’s meet each other. Let’s support and get to know each other. We can learn and connect with each other so that we all feel less lonely and more in touch with our bodies, our selves and other pregnant women around us in a similar situation.
Much love,
Susana
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should come! I have experienced 2 pregnancies as an expat in Maputo and can relate to how you are feeling. Let’s get together and share our feelings and experiences. Let’s meet each other. Let’s support and get to know each other. We can learn and connect with each other so that we all feel less lonely and more in touch with our bodies, our selves and other pregnant women around us in a similar situation.
Much love,
Susana
23 April 2009
Remebering this moment
Being pregnant is a special time in your life. Melissa van Herksen tells us how we can save our memories from slipping away (sleep deprivation will do it!)
Some of her suggestions:
1. Have a photo session with a professional photographer. Contacts in town include:
Last, but not least, this is a video of the presentation Melissa prepared. Thank you so much Melissa!
Some of her suggestions:
1. Have a photo session with a professional photographer. Contacts in town include:
- Picture Perfect Concepts – www.pictureperfect.blogspot.
com - Magma – www.magmaphotography.com (if you call her tell her Melissa sent you)
- VK Photography – Vanessa Kruger, PEW member
- www.flickr.com (FREE, but has some limitations with storage)
- www.shutterfly.com (no limits on storage and it is FREE)
- there are many more out there... Snapfish, Photolog, etc..
- www.shutterfly.com
- www.viovio.com
- www.snapfish.com
- www.blurb.com
- iPhoto (only for Mac users)
- Melissa's photo blog: www.vanherksen.shutterfly.com
- Melissa's blog: www.vanherksen.com
- Susana's blog: susufairlie.blogspot.com
- www.blogger.com – program that lets you create your own free blog
- www.shutterfly.com – lets you host a photo blog that has many functions you can add to the blog
- www.photoscape.org – really cool program that lets you do all sorts of things, but my favorite is the collages you can make. It is the “page” option in the program.
- Martha Stewart’s website has tons of fun ideas for babies...check it out (just click away in her baby sections...but the site is kind of slow....but worth it)
- http://www.marthastewart.com/
baby?lnc= cff854e7177ee010VgnVCM1000003d 370a0aRCRD&rsc=leftnav_kids_ baby - http://www.marthastewart.com/
article/baby-photo-good- things?lnc= 68ba08b2887ee010VgnVCM1000003d 370a0aRCRD&rsc=taxonomylist_ kids_good-things-kids
Last, but not least, this is a video of the presentation Melissa prepared. Thank you so much Melissa!