Divine Del ✨🦋🧿
Bio
Extremely interested in human behaviour. My writing is mainly philosophical with a twist of humour. I welcome you to my own personal journey, ongoing observations, never ending questions, and the world through my extremely observant eyes..
Stories (13/0)
Breast chance.
There were so many times I wanted to give up breastfeeding. No one prepared me for how hard it was going to be. Not only is it draining on the body physically and mentally, but it can also be extremely challenging. I wanted to breastfeed exclusively, but my milk took a long time to come through. I decided I didn’t want to give up, so I continued to persevere, hand-expressing colostrum, then small amounts of milk, pumping, nipple shields, and feeding for what felt like around the clock. I was doing everything I could to give him what I never had.
By Divine Del ✨🦋🧿5 months ago in Families
What do I know?
There were only 3 of us on the prenatal ward and it was dark and eerily quiet. With each contraction, I suppressed the pain to try and stay in control of myself. I’d asked for a paracetamol at 8 p.m. and was told they would bring me some. An hour had passed and I’d been completely forgotten about. I pressed the buzzer as the pain began to intensify. “I think I’m in labour, can you check to see if I’ve dilated at all please?” I said. The midwife appeared quite old school so I assumed she was in her late 50s. I already had a feeling I wasn’t going to be taken seriously. “We started your induction at 6 p.m.,” she replied. “We won’t check you again for another 24 hours now.” However, I knew something was happening and I knew my body, so why didn’t she believe me? At around midnight, my waters broke and the same midwife came to check on me, “Oh, you’re 4 cm dilated,” she exclaimed. “I told you!” I said firmly.
By Divine Del ✨🦋🧿6 months ago in Families
Is this your first?
It’s not even been 24 hours since the birth of my son. I shuffle down the corridor, holding my stomach as I imagine the horror of my c-section stitches busting open. I can’t carry anything, not even my newborn baby. So his dad and my sister are there to help. As I exit the postnatal ward after being coerced to leave my bed prematurely, I pass by a midwife who was with me during my labour. She congratulates me and then continues to comment with what I can only assume is some sort of sick joke. “I’ll see you again soon,” she says. I’m so shocked I almost drop to the floor! I tell her that I won’t be doing that again, but she laughs and says, “They all say that, but you’ll be back here in a year I guarantee it!” I can’t help but feel instantly upset by her comment. I guess it’s because I feel like she’s generalising me and I’ve never been one to want to be put into a societal box. I didn’t respond, but at that moment I’m completely unaware of how many more times I would hear comments like this for weeks, months and possibly years to come.
By Divine Del ✨🦋🧿6 months ago in Families
Disney and its unrealistic portrayal of romantic relationships.
ONCE UPON A TIME...Disney set a lot of young and impressionable girls up to fail in future relationships because of its incredibly high, unrealistic, and most importantly ‘magical’ expectations that it used to portray romance and love.
By Divine Del ✨🦋🧿3 years ago in Humans
My RACIST nan.
“My Nan’s racist,” I’d say casually, dropping it into conversation if the conversation led to it. Some people’s reactions were to downplay it or avoid the topic of conversation completely because it made them feel uncomfortable or they did not understand. Others would be shocked and apologetic for such abysmal behaviour. Either way, my nonchalant attitude towards it was always a defence mechanism, a way of guarding myself against something that I would never completely come to terms with myself.
By Divine Del ✨🦋🧿4 years ago in The Swamp
Mental health and REALTION..ships.
Is it mental to think I can be in a relationship when I’m considered....erm mental? Integrating, interacting and compromising in a relationship can already be an immense challenge for some. However, if you were to add mental health into the equation you would have a whole different set of challenges to consider. When it comes to managing mental health there is much to understand. There is also an increasing amount of information out there which can sometimes feel overwhelming.
By Divine Del ✨🦋🧿4 years ago in Humans
Sex and the Spirituality.
I remember being in my early 20’s at work one day and having a conversation with a group of women in their mid 40’s about sex. They would tell me that they used to pretend to be asleep in order to avoid having any sexual intimacy with their husbands. When they told me this I couldn’t believe my ears. Why would you purposely want to avoid physical intimacy with your partner? At the time I was oblivious to the rumors that married people have less sex than those who are not married and I couldn’t seem to understand why?
By Divine Del ✨🦋🧿4 years ago in Longevity
Tech and Time
Living in this modern day and age, the age of technology and consumerism we can find that people are becoming more and more reliant on objects and personal gain. Has this made us more selfish as individuals? And do we feed off of instant gratification?
By Divine Del ✨🦋🧿4 years ago in Motivation
