The New School Run
During the October half term holidays we moved house, which you can read about here. My main concern about moving was all about school….
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Baby’s Hospital Bag
Last week I gave you a little peek into my hospital bag, which you can read here. This week, I’m talking about what…
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Hospital Bag
On Thursday I will be 34 weeks pregnant. I’ve normally had my hospital bags packed well before this point before but with everything…
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A Quick Catch Up
Some of you have probably noticed that it’s been very quiet from me in the blog of the last couple of weeks. I…
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Chopping Away
*A Guest Post* It’s baking season – Get help from Chopping Away now I’ve been a mother for nearly 7 years now, and…
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30 Week Update
30 weeks (well, actually 30+5 now – I’ve fallen almost a week behind with each post!)…so in less than 7 weeks I will…
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Showing off my shoes
I’ve always loved shoes. I think I love them because it doesn’t matter how fat or thin you are, you can always find…
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What to Expect When You Have a Glucose Tolerance Test
In my 29 week update I told you about the fact that my blood sugar levels had came back high, and so I…
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The end of co sleeping
Harrison has always been a good sleeper, sleeping in a cot in his own bedroom from eight months old. Alex, although getting better,…
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29 Week Update
Last Tuesday, I had my 28 week appointment with the midwife. He’s measuring absolutely fine, but had some not so great news about my…
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28 Week Update
With all the excitement of Harrison starting school last week, I completely forgot to do my 27 week update. Not that there was…
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A Week at Nursery
Last Wednesday, Harrison started nursery. It’s a school nursery (or preschool as some people call it) attached to our local infant school. It…
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Coping with two under two
I’ve been planning on writing this post for a while, even though I’m no longer a mum to two under two (although will…
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26 Week Update
After last week’s horrible week of feeling like death warmed up, I can say I feel much better this week. I think the…
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Arachnophobia
As readers of my blog may know, I have kabourophobia.In that post, I also talked about the fact I’m pretty bloody scared…
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25 Week Update
So, 25 weeks!! Up until this week, other than feeling tired at times I’ve felt absolutely fine. The last ten days or so…
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24 Week Update
24 weeks is an incredibly big and important milestone in a pregnancy, and one that I am so very relieved to have got…
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A rubbish day!
I’m typing this on my phone as it’s the only internet access I have at the moment! Today has been a disaster from…
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23 Week Update
I’m a few days late posting this! I ummed and ahhed about not actually doing a post this week, because to be honest,…
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Sheldon Country Park
We are really lucky that even though we live in the middle of Birmingham, we have some beautiful parks within a few minutes…
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Cloth Nappies – Our Experience So Far…
If you’re previously read my blog posts, you will see that we have recently decided to use cloth (reusable) nappies on Alex, and…
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Alex’s Birth Story
Alex was born in October 2012, three days before his due date. Harrison was only six or seven months old when I fell…
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Harrison’s Birth Story
Harrison was born almost three weeks early in June 2011. It hadn’t been a particularly easy pregnancy. I had suspected swine flu when…
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Ash End House Farm
Yesterday, we visited Ash End House Farm, which is near Tamworth – and I can definitely recommend it as a great day out for…
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22 Weeks Update
Not a lot to write about this week. Movements have been getting bigger and bigger to the point where Graham can feel gentle…
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