Gestational Diabetes: A Diagnosis and My First Thoughts
A couple of weeks ago, at 31+4 weeks pregnant, I had a phone call from my midwife to tell me that I had…
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How We Chose Baby Girl’s Name
Within a few days of finding out we were having another baby, we started talking about baby names. All of our children have…
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28 Weeks | The Pregnancy Diaries
*AD – Contains gifted item Well hello third trimester! We are on the home stretch now – in about ten weeks we will…
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Today, I Should Have Been Having A Baby
Today, I should have been having a baby. Today would have been Pumpkin’s due date. It crept up on me, to be honest,…
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24 Weeks Pregnant | The Pregnancy Diaries
24 weeks pregnant! I haven’t written a blog post for a couple of weeks because they were pretty uneventful, so this is a…
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The Things People Have Asked Me About Breastfeeding
I know that breastfeeding (and formula feeding) are topics which can stir up a lot of controversy and feelings, so I want to…
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21 Weeks | The Pregnancy Diaries
21 weeks! That’s more than half way! We are more than half way towards meeting Baby Girl! I’m a bit sad that I…
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Old Wives Tales To Predict A Baby’s Sex: Which Ones Were Right For Us?
Let me start off by saying I know that old wives tales are generally a load of bollocks. I have absolutely no idea…
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18 Weeks Pregnant | The Pregnancy Diaries
This week I have suddenly felt very, very pregnant. To look at now there is no mistaking that is a baby bump and…
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Why I Won’t Call Our Baby a Rainbow Baby
Rainbow baby: a baby born after the loss of a child through miscarriage or stillbirth. When I announced that we were having another…
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Window To The Womb, Ellesmere Port | Review
*Ad – Unpaid Review If you follow me on social media, you will know that on Wednesday, we went to Window to the…
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16 weeks | The Pregnancy Diaries
I wasn’t going to write a pregnancy update every week, but actually, last week seems to have been one full of new things…
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Second Trimester Self Care
*AD – Contains gifted items Self-care. I always hated that phrase. It sounds a bit indulgent, a bit hippy-dippy and just one of…
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15 Weeks | The Pregnancy Diaries
15 weeks – well and truly into the second trimester now! Last week was quite a tough week, to be honest, especially after…
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13 Weeks | The Pregnancy Diaries
I wasn’t sure – I’m still not – how to do this. I love going back and reading updates that I did throughout…
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The First Trimester | The Pregnancy Diaries
*Contains gifted product Well, I never thought I’d be doing this again, but here we are, almost at the end of the first…
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Three Weeks On From My Miscarriage
It’s been three weeks since my miscarriage. I’ve not been pregnant as long as I knew I was pregnant, if that makes sense?…
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Three Weeks
Three weeks. We knew you for three weeks. In those three weeks, we planned. In those three weeks, we got excited. In those…
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First hospital trip!
So last night we had our first trip to the hospital, complete with all the hospital bags!
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Yes it’s ANOTHER boy!
Three sentences I seem to be saying a lot at the moment: 1. Any day now 2. A little boy 3. No, we…
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Get Baby Out!
Finally passed the 37 week mark!!! At this point, most health professionals class baby as ‘term’ (full term being 40 weeks), although this…
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The Last Few Weeks…
As I approach the last few weeks of being pregnant for the last time, I’m now at the point where I’m not enjoying…
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12 Week Update
As much as I want this pregnancy to go slowly (remind me of that fact when I’m nearly full term and moaning!), I…
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The dating scan: 9 weeks
On Wednesday, we saw our baby for the first time. Because I still breastfeed Alex, my system is slightly muddled up still so…
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The First ‘Last’: The Positive Pregnancy Test.
Last week we had some exciting news. We are expecting baby number three! It’s very early days yet, possibly only between six to…
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