Parent stories and expert advice / Juliet

Juliet, originally from NZ, is married to Johnny and has been living in Melbourne for 4 and a half years. Their daughter, Evelyn, was 6 days overdue and made her entrance into the world via an emergency c-section. Since then, she's been growing like a mushroom and is a very alert, chatty and smiley baby!

Blogposts by Juliet

Evelyn's first few weeks

After the crazy last night in hospital Evelyn did really well once we got her home. She seemed to be quite content to have left the hospital and be in this strange, cold house. Luckily the first night at home she went back to sleeping how she had been the first few nights...

Evelyn's first swim!

I took Evelyn to the pool for the first time this week. She loved it. It is a swimming pool that is for kids lessons and they do a baby play session for 3month + bubs...

Juliet, Johnny & Evelyn - Week 11

My parents went home last week so it was back to just Johnny, Evelyn and me. Again it was sad to see them go but nice to get back to just us again...

Rugby Allegiances

Evelyn experienced her first trans tasman rugby game – the first Bledisloe Cup test between New Zealand and Australia...

Week 1 - Welcome Evelyn Bartels!

Evelyn arrived six days overdue on Tuesday 6th May 2014 at 11.58pm after almost 24 hours of labour and an emergency caesarean. She was a healthy 4.365kgs and as the obstetrician said when she pulled her out there wasn’t much chance of her coming out naturally given her size and her position (OP)...