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May 22, 2015 Pacific Crest Trail, PCT Trailjournal 6 Comments firedetour hikertown PCT roadwalk Trailjournal

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And then... just like that... they turn one! 💛 #howonearth #wildone #andmyheartjustkeepsexploding #noarobinhood #firstbirthday #morecakeplease #wherethewildthingsare #loveofmylife

I could write lots of things about motherhood, but really... it's much more about listening than it is about talking. So yeah... Infinite love and gratitude today and every other day. And thinking of all the women who so desperately wanna hold a baby in their arms... ❤️ #almostone #likehowdidthathappen #wordsofwisdomjustshutupandlisten #mothersday #myoneandonly #noarobinhood #makingmyheartexplodeeverysingleday #hartendiefje

Time for Noa's first snowy adventure in the Swiss Alps. ❄️🏔 Both Dan and I are mountain people. It's not that we don't like the seaside but somehow it are always the mountains calling us. We've been working so much in January that we really needed a change of scenery and the mountains always help with shifting perspective. While we already took Noa to the Austrian Alps last summer this was his first time in the high Alps with our 4000m mountain friends around. Of course we couldn't climb with him yet as babies aren't allowed to climb at high altitude but we went to say hi and introduce him to the greatness and strength of the mountains. #themountainsarecalling #swissalps #wallis #zinal #grimentz #mountainfriends

So yeah... this happened a while back... on the last warm sunny day of 2019. At the end of summer and the beginning of fall we had a celebration of love and life together with our family and a handful of friends. Noa Robin was welcomed into the community and we celebrated the "YES" we've been giving to eachother each day since we got together 6,5 years ago. It was such an incredibly beautiful day! Daniel and I got married quite a while back, just for the two of us, but this ceremony with the people we love made sure our love for eachother and for Noa was marked and witnessed by others too ❤️#celebratelife #celebratelove #sayyes 📷by our family and friends

4 months with my favorite creature in the whole wide world. Nothing could've prepared me for this... The sleepless nights, the " I got no time for nothing else", the worries;... but most of all the endless amount of love, the smiles and pure shiny eyes so full of joy, all the "for the first time"s,... Every day is a surprise and a miracle with this little one ❤️ #foreverinlove #hartedief #lovedbaby #noarobinhood #4monthsold #tothemoonandback

Some days I can't believe I'm a mom now... A mom!? Me?! I'm discovering parts of myself I didn't know of before and I'm discovering a whole new dimension of love. When I look at Noa my heart explodes. I would do anything for him to keep him safe, knowing very well that life will teach him and grow him and that things will happen I have no power over. The first weeks of motherhood haven't been easy. To be honest... it's one of the hardest things I've ever done. Do not get me wrong, it's beautiful and magical and I'm full of gratitude, but boy it's hard too. Sleep deprivation is serious torture and the responsibility for such a beautiful innocent being makes me realize even more how fragile life is. My biggest fears are 1. that he stops breathing (it's a fear all moms have so I've heard) and 2. that one of us gets ill or dies too soon so we can't take care of him together. All I can do is trust that things happen just the way they should and so I try to roll with whatever is coming our way. One thing I am sure of is that I will always love my baby to the moon and back... and back... and back! #motherlove #moederliefde #tothemoonandback #motherhood #11weeksold #tiredbuthappy #Igiveyoumyforever

We took Noa on his first hiking/camping trip to the Austrian Alps. Him being only 8 weeks old and due to the hot temperatures in Europe right now it was a bit of a challenge to keep him cool enough, especially when hiking (our euroschirm umbrellas were a life saver once again). It's a whole new experience for us, looking after a baby while hiking; meaning we have to take frequent breaks, be it for changing diapers, nursing or change of position. While we both sometimes are like "our adventure life is so over", we also know this journey with Noa is the bigger adventure... one of love and patience and letting go and giving everything we have at the same time. We're learning now to create outdoor adventures that include our baby boy and we're already coming up with some exciting plans (as if plans ever work out haha, but one can dream right?). On the list are PCT (always PCT), Continental Divide by bike, biking around Scandinavia with our recumbents,... A well I guess our adventure life ain't over, it has only just begun! 🤘 . #austrianalps #kleinwalzertal #hikingwithbaby #limasbaby #adventureswithbaby #lifehasonlyjustbegun #euroschirm #noarobinhood @limasbaby

39 weeks in / 2 weeks out 🥰 There are 19 days in between these two pictures. The first one was taken right before I got admitted to the hospital (you can imagine how happy I am we still took these photos), 5 days before Noa was born. The second one 14 days after his birth. It's so hard to believe this little miracle was growing inside of me!! When we went to the hospital that day I had no idea Noa was gonna make an early entry into our world and I wasn't quite ready yet to say goodbye to my babybump, but it's not like I got to choose. So while I was happy to the moon and back to hold my baby in my arms, there was sadness too because that very special "in between time" that pregnancy is, was over. Somehow that bump and that closeness were gone too unexpected and too soon. I'm not all friends with my postpartum body yet cause I've never been so "soft and round" and it's a new shape I have to get to know and love. ❤️ #babybump #39weeks #newborn #postpartumbody #loveofmylife

I've never hidden my scars and I never will; especially not this one as it gave me the most beautiful gift of my life and it tells Noa's birth story! The stories of our birth and the children we gave birth to are so universal and so unique at the same time. No matter whether long or short, painful or not, vaginal or c-section, scary or full of joy, they are all worth to be told and to be heard. They are beginnings and endings, of lives, of moms and dads; each one changing the world! 3 weeks early, due to gestosis/hellp-syndrome, I was admitted to hospital and monitored closely. After 3 days the doctors decided it was too risky both for me and for Noa to wait and so they induced labor. The first day not much happened, but on the second day my uterus got overstimulated and contractions got so intense I literally had 7 hours of contractions without any breaks. By the end of day 2 I was totally spent and there wasn't much progress going on as my body wasn't ready yet to give birth. On the third day we made the decision to have a c-section. Epidural anesthesia with low trombocytes was no longer an option and so I was wheeled into the OR with the idea I'd have general anesthesia and I would't experience the birth of my son consciously. It was the birth story I wanted least: Daniel waiting in the waiting room and me not being awake when my son gave his first cry. But then when I arrived in the OR, the anesthetist came to me and said "we're gonna try spinal anesthesia". With my trombocytes being at 70 000 he was willing to take the risk. And so was I. So Daniel was called out of the waiting room, I got spinal anesthesia and 15 minutes later we heard Noa's first cry and he was put on my chest while the doctors closed me up. I remember my first words being "my baby my baby is he ok?" They said he was and I could only cry and shiver and admire the bundle of absolute perfection breathing on my chest. I am so incredibly grateful I got to experience consciously my baby boy being born and Daniel was there with us and could hold him in the OR too and (... continued in comments...)

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