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Babysoul 

Creating a baby, is supposed to be a joyful and natural progression in a woman's life, unless she is faced with the seemingly impossible challenge of infertility and Invitro Fertilization.
Not much is determined, about the vast physical and emotional strain, enduring a minefield of drugs, needles, operations, and grief can produce. But a woman on IVF will tell you..... It is overwhelming. It is exhausting. And when she loses new life...it is cruel and devastating.

Babysoul
, is one woman's heart, sharing every aspect of this unique path. It is a beautiful spiritual journey, of courage and vision, of determination and faith, and of triumph and healing.

Without IVF, we would not have our baby.
Every hard corner we turned, was one step towards a miracle.
Sometimes our dreams can come true...
...Bronwen Purdy 03.

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ISBN: 1-9208-8400-9
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 138
Genre: Non Fiction


 


Author: Bronwen Purdy 
Imprint: Zeus

Publisher: Zeus Publications
Date Published: November 2003
Language: English

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Author Biography

 After six emotionally challenging years, trying to fall pregnant, Bronwen and her husband Mark, were blessed with the miracle of IVF. 

As a young woman, Bron back-packed and worked her way around the world for two years, then added a further nine years of travel, as an international flight attendant. 

She has a rich background in the Holistic Healing field, and now works from home (during baby friendly hours), as a Remedial Massage Therapist and Reflexologist. She has also grown up with a natural clairvoyant ability, and practices Clairvoyant Readings, for the purpose of guidance and healing-teaching meditation, spiritual development and dream interpretation. 

Bron has spent two years involved in radio on the mid-north coast of N.S.W. Australia, with her own Mind, Body & Spirit program - where she interpreted listener's dreams, live on air, and has just completed a children's book, written for her daughter, as an adventure story, about dolphins and mermaids.

Introduction

     When people think of babies, beautiful images of cherubs and cheeky faces come forward, the gurgling delight of a newborn’s first expressions in life—they are treasures to embrace and coo at and for most women, nurture and draw out the deepest primal instinct, that of motherhood. 

During my personal journey into trying to create a baby, I learnt so much about this instinct. It didn’t just appear to me out of the blue, it was always there, for quite a long time, not being fulfilled. It was extremely difficult to comprehend—why making a baby could be so trying and elusive to some and such an easy event for others. Why did God have to punish me? 

As an individual, I have a natural clairvoyant ability that has helped me to sense, see, hear and feel life beyond the physical world alone. Being very sensitive always provided a more holistic understanding towards creating and losing new life. 

It didn’t become quite clear until further down the track, that a baby was not ready to be here yet, and no matter how much that hurt, or affected my own soul, there was a place within, to find peace and learn and grow, while patience was developed further, and the incoming soul completed their own agenda, in the World beyond our own. 

I wanted to write a book about this. A book that reveals all that is good, and all that is not so good, about IVF, and unfulfilled dreams. A book that talks about the spiritual counterpart to new life—the spiritual being.

It is the core essence of each of us, and whomever we conceive. There is a glorious heavenly person to consider, and some of them teach us tenfold, from their Divine Residence, before we can ever hold them in our arms. 

On my journey, I was surrounded by many different women with different views, philosophies and baby-making experiences. My immediate family and circle of friends, all travelling a road unique to my own, yet constantly touching me somehow—challenging my will, feeding my strongest desire. 

I am inspired to begin writing at a time when my loved ones, are still in Heaven, having been here and returned a few times over. The constant roller coaster of hope and then disappointment and grief, has gradually taught my soul the intricacies of faith and acceptance. 

If you have ever wondered about the journey of your baby’s soul, or have ever lost a baby, or someone close to you has, this is a spiritual blueprint as well as a factual physical one, for perhaps understanding why and how. It may not register as your truth, and then again, it may be the very medicine to see you through.

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Inside the Dark Forest

 Writing has always given me the opportunity to get in touch with every feeling I have, whether through stories or poetry. I remember my primary school teacher making a point of telling the class, that I was very good at written expression. I wonder if Mr McCormack would know that written expression was good for me. That it had sometimes saved my life, my sanity and my feelings of worth in this world. It had helped me through the hardest of times, just to find another place to put emotions into. A place to be honest and real and raw. 

When I was sexually assaulted 12 years ago, I eventually wrote 40 pages of what happened and how it felt—it gave me the personal empowerment to move on as a victor, not a victim. 

Here I find myself again, needing to write it all down. Everything. Nothing missed. I want to put my story before my own eyes and embrace it somehow, as a collective experience of my life’s journey. 

I am almost 36 years old. When I was ten, my mum had a baby; my brother Geoff and I loved his smell, his feeling, and his sparkle. I loved babies and I couldn’t wait to have one of my own. It had always been in the back of my mind that one day, I’d do that, get those cuddles and croon a little person off to sleep in my arms. One day I’d be a mother and I’d just adore the baby who came to me.

By thirty years old and no partner in sight, I began to wonder if maybe I was going to miss out on a family.  I looked into the idea of adoption or artificial insemination and thought quite seriously about becoming a single parent. 

My biological clock had been ticking a long time by then—all through my twenties.  I’d picked up so many little babies and children on the planes whilst I worked as an airhostess and every time I would feel this strong surge from my heart, wanting so much to be in a story where I had this happening. I used to see their little auras and I believe that babies are just like Angels, their purity and innocence reflects real beauty and paradise, just like Heaven. 

Three years later I met my soulmate, and fell deeply in love with the man I had waited an eternity for. He told me that he had had a vasectomy after his fourth child, from his first marriage, but it never registered as a potential problem for having more children. I remember just shrugging and saying,  “I’ve found you, and we’ll find a way. I know I’m going to have a baby and I know that you are my soulmate, the right man for me”. I even experienced visionary dreams around that time to confirm this inner knowing for me personally. 

I honestly believed that on our honeymoon, I would get pregnant. That we would be in the 5% of small cases where vasectomies fail and just because we had made love, and I wanted a baby, then that was all there was to it. I remember walking along this lovely beach in Tahiti and meeting these two little children. A Polynesian girl, 4 years old and her little brother jumped out of a tree in front of us. The little girl later came running up to me with a flower and I said to Mark, “These are our children. This is a sign about our children.” I felt so strongly that I was being shown something clearly. 

I couldn’t wait to get on with it. Being married had made me incredibly clucky. I had found my nest and now I needed to lay my eggs and be a mother bird.  We organized to meet a well-respected surgeon, renowned for his success with vasectomy reversals in Sydney. We just thought, we needed to do this and then we could start to bring our children here. Mark’s operation went for 5 hours, 2 hours longer than normal and we were told it all looked pretty good. We had to wait a few months before trying and these months seemed the longest wait in the world. We also had to struggle to find the money to pay the huge medical bill, the amount for such an operation, was something neither of us had ever seen in our joint bank accounts, let alone tried to save. It was quite hair-raising trying to meet the deadlines of each medical fee. But we did it, and we were so proud of our ability to get there. 

For 12 months, I watched my periods come, one after the other. I would dread my cycles like a disease. I hated myself for bleeding every time when all around me people were just getting pregnant because they felt like it. 

They would say, “I think I’ll have a baby now”, and then just have it. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me and I remember crying a lot and trying to change my diet etc. to improve my chances.

 

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