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19 Weeks Pregnant – growing big and looking after a sick child
Today marks 19 weeks pregnant which made me think earlier this week, “The second scan must be coming up soon” only to realise it’s next week. It’s so weird how everything was such a big deal in the...
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20 Weeks Pregnant – It’s a girl!
As we rocked up to our 20 week scan, I turned my thoughts of finding out the baby’s sex and making sure we had the money for pictures. Obviously, I know that scans are a medical affair, not for...
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Win a Mother and Baby Pack from Katharine Botanicals
Calendula. It’s a word that didn’t enter my life before I became a mother. Oh, I’d probably heard it before but I wasn’t paying attention. Becoming responsible for a whole new person, so fragile,...
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22 Weeks Pregnant – Starting to prepare
“Hello, baby,” Talitha says to my bump, “Having a nice day?” She catches me off guard every time. It’s not something I’ve taught her to do but I suppose she finds it natural to include the baby in our...
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Our KG Hypnobirthing Journey – The course, part one
Disagreements and skepticism were welcomed in the room as Katharine Graves confidently began the HypnoBirthing course we’d decided to attend. She acknowledged that the prefix “Hypno” was enough to...
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Our reasons for choosing a doula
So, we met the doula we were checking out on Friday (23 weeks!) and got such a good feeling that we decided to go ahead with her. Just waiting to hear back from her now. I’m incredibly indecisive with...
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Seven Secrets of a Joyful Birth – book review
I know lots of people who say that when it comes to all things parenting, shut the books and just follow your instinct. I agree to an extent. I think we’ve got to be mindful about what we dwell on –...
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Our KG Hypnobirthing Journey – Finishing the Course
“You realise that your eyelids are so relaxed they stay closed of their own accord. Even if you wanted to open them, you will find they stay shut. In fact you can try this for yourself in a minute and...
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The Hypnobirthing Book and CD by Katharine Graves – Review and Giveaway
So, you know how I’ve been going on and on about our hypnobirthing course with Katharine Graves? You can read about the first and second halves if you haven’t. I’ve since read Katharine’s book The...
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Present at My Siblings’ Home Births
This is a guest post from Fritha who blogs at Tigerlilly Quinn. When she mentioned that she had been present at her siblings’ births, I was intrigued as to what those experiences were like for her. On...
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27 Weeks Pregnant – Exhaustion and Self-Doubt
It seems my pregnant body is being very text book about things. Whereas I felt pretty rubbish inside and out almost the entire time I carried Talitha (from morning sickness to pelvic pain to anxiety)...
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To see this new baby with the simplicity of a child – There’s a House Inside...
I started writing a 28 weeks pregnancy update instead of this post but I’m still feeling pretty much as I did last week, swinging between extremes with irrational lows. It doesn’t hugely make sense to...
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Shop Independent: Ten gift ideas for pregnant mums
I don’t know what was happening this Summer but we have a LOT of friends having babies in the Spring. The Ashes were on. England was doing well so maybe some of us were trying to regain attention from...
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30 Weeks Pregnant – Fainty Whale
Like lots of things in this pregnancy, the baby bump crept up on me. I feel like it’s happened overnight. One day, I was my usual size and the next, it was all pregnant woman ahoy! In fact, I still...
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31 Weeks Pregnant – On growing a baby over Christmas
I printed off a free 2014 calendar the other day and wrote in the pregnancy weeks as I keep finding myself making plans for next year and struggling to figure out how pregnant I’ll be by then. Then I...
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34 Weeks Pregnant – Heavy and Happy
After spending so much of this pregnancy saying that I’m not thinking about it much, it’s as if in this last stretch – especially with Christmas out of the way – something has clicked. It’s suddenly...
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Pregnancy Tales – Journeys into Parenthood
I just finished quite a fun read, Pregnancy Tales – Journeys into Parenthood, edited by Amy Tilston. I zoomed through it, in fact, as it’s a light and often entertaining read. The book claims to...
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35 Weeks Pregnant – the Toddler, the Baby and Me
I saw this model of an eight-month-old fetus at AtBristol Science Centre last week. Jess from Along Came Cherry and I took our kids there for a Toddler Takeover and we both reckon this baby looks huge...
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36 Weeks Pregnant – Heavily pregnant and slightly in denial
No one’s more surprised than I that we’re this far along already. In fact, the baby’s dropped lots and Braxton Hicks have started but I’m still prone to forgetting altogether that I’m pregnant. Apart...
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37 Weeks Pregnant – Suddenly Impatient
This feels like it’s been the longest week of the pregnancy so far. Hopefully that’s not an indicator of what is to come. I’ve filled our calendar so we hopefully avoid me moping around saying “I’m...
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