Going through pregnancy, labour and birth has a dramatic effect on a mother’s body. Postnatally, our own health care is often neglected because our attentions are so fixed on protecting and caring for this little person that has just been brought into the world. My first pregnancy had little effect on my digestive health, but… Read More
A couple of weeks ago, I shared the story of Q’s birth and how he kept us waiting through a few days of induction before entering into the world. The first 24 hours after birth is when the most ‘firsts’ occur and so I thought I’d share what happened for us. The few minutes after… Read More
Over the last few months, I’ve been sharing updates about my second pregnancy with the last post at 38 weeks pregnant. I’ve talked about how utterly petrified I was about giving birth to another big baby after a traumatic forceps-assisted birth with O, weighing in at 9lb 12oz, on the 98th centile. I was determined to go into… Read More
Time is slipping away… and I’m starting to get very nervous now that I’m 38 weeks pregnant. My last update at 36 weeks had been an eventful couple of weeks, but thankfully things have generally calmed down. Life has been made a little harder recently as hubs, A, has been in hospital for planned surgery. It… Read More
I’ve been meaning to pack my hospital bag for the last few weeks… but with the persuasion help of my best friend, K, we’ve managed to pull together my essentials for labour, birth and brief hospital stay. This is my second labour, having given birth to O over 4 years ago, but I honestly had no… Read More
There are a number of great subscription boxes available, containing food, makeup and everything in between. Beebies Baby Store have teamed up with Fi Star-Stone, author & parenting expert, and the Kicks Count charity to launch the Beebies Baby Club Pregnancy Subscription Box and I’ve received one of the very first monthly boxes to review.… Read More
My bump started to show pretty early on in my second pregnancy and, whilst this is lovely, I really struggle to find maternity clothes down the local shops. When Bonprix asked if I’d like to review a couple of items from their Maternity range, I couldn’t say no. If you’re a regular reader of this… Read More
36 weeks pregnant. Wow. The end is very near… This last two weeks has been a little turbulent on the pregnancy front. I left my last update at 34 weeks, following a growth scan but before I’d had any discussion with my consultant. I went into my appointment (which was running late, leading to my writing this… Read More
This last week or so, I’ve been trying to survive a pretty nasty cold… and as all pregnant women are too aware, we’re not allowed to take any medication during pregnancy with the exception of paracetamol. There’s not a lot worse than feeling so ropey and full of cold when you’re trying to make a… Read More
Here we are at 34 weeks pregnant. It’s crazy how quickly the weeks have flown by! We’ve had quite a lot happen in the last couple of weeks since my 32 week update. The theme of my last post seemed to surround how stressful life has been lately and how much I was struggling with… Read More
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