Tag: Pregnancy
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With love, to Liz Jones
I wasn’t going to write about the Liz Jones article [non-Daily Mail link] and the fuss it caused all over Twitter yesterday. Fuss? It had Twitter chortling and gasping in waves of indignant amusement and horror at the Daily Mail columnist’s latest confession about how she tried to steal some sperm from a couple of…
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Progression: bump to baby
12 Weeks, July 2010 20 Weeks, September 2010 September 2010 November 2010 February 2011 Day 0 – February 14 Day 1, 15 February 2011 Day 5, 19 February 2011 Day 9, 23 February 2011 Day 13, 27 February 2011 Day 14, 28 February 2011 Day 18, 4 March 2011 Day 19, 5 March 2011 –…
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Something with which I struggled in 2010
Physical mobility was my biggest challenge in 2010. Near the end of January I over exercised my right knee, while running with poor form, and I hurt / irritated the area. This was pretty bad news because I had just signed up for the London Marathon and I needed the training. On the plus side…
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Baby: Acquisitions, Visitors and So Much Silence
38 weeks, four days The bump and I had visitors this week. Two of my colleagues came over with their little ones, 11 week old Juliette and 16 week old James, and we caught up on gossip while I tried to see how I felt about having little babies around. It may be a little…
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Baby: Four Weeks Sitting Around
35 weeks, four days Four weeks and three days left until my due date but only 10 days until the baby’s arrival becomes imminent. Sounds like soon and getting ‘sooner’ every moment. For a while I was stressing a lot about nappies. Must get nappies. Nappies. Nappies. Nappies. I only had one packet of newborn…
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Baby: Are You Sure?
34 weeks, four days The bump measures 35 inches from pelvis to the top and I look more like Humpty Dumpty than ever. I am gaining lots of respect for his sitting on a wall since I can barely get comfortable on the couch these days. I’m growing daily and am meant to be gaining…
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Baby B: and Iron
Third trimester, 29 weeks, four days I had some blood tests at my 28 week midwife appointment and one of them was to check my iron levels. Five days later I received a phone call informing me that they were too low and that I should contact my GP. The midwife spent the next couple…
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Baby B: Mama In Tears, Baby Chilling
28 weeks, four days I was talking to Baby’s dad, a few days ago, and mentioned that there had been little kicking and activity going on that day. Baby had been all over the place the previous week, kicking and rolling and arching out. One early morning, I woke with a start as I was…
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Baby B: Some Stories To Tell
I have been hearing friends’ and random strangers stories about their pregnancies and some of them just leave me astounded. Mine are full of ooohs and aahhhs of pain mostly, messy nose bleeds, frequent night time awakenings (every night), painful feet and hot flushes. Other women seem to be going through Wonderland pregnancies that even…
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Baby B: Forgetting The Baby – Pregnancy Brain
My midwife is on the first floor of the building and I usually get in the lift, press the button which indicates Midwife and head on up. This time however, I walked into the building and saw that the lift was broken so I walked up the stairs but couldn’t remember which floor to go…
Ephemeral digest 