This post is a general introduction to pregnancy and birth in Norway.  In future posts in this series “Having a Baby in Norway” I will go through procedures, information and experiences in detail.  If you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comments section below so everyone can benefit from the answers. [...]

It’s been interesting reading the reactions from some of our readers from our first night of No Sirens and No Rush.  Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to those who gave us their thoughts, words and care.  Unfortunately, we have had to leave out two of the more feisty comments as they do [...]

It’s been a rough weekend… and it’s not even over yet.  I didn’t think that this would be my first post about experiencing the medical system in Norway but it has to be, if not for information for our readers then for my own sanity. I’m a subconscious writer.  I always need to write things [...]

Like every Christmas, we over-eat, over-spend and make a New Years resolution that next Christmas things will be different.  Last year, (Christmas 2008), I definitely had my fair share of pepperkaker, trimmings and marsipan pigs.  A week after Christmas I had to walk around with the top button on my pants undone! Then came the heaviness, the [...]