UPDATE: The winner of the Mokee Tipi Tent is Katie Groves! I'll contact you by email for your address - congratulations! I nice little reprieve from the whole Gestational Diabetes debacle (yes I do have it, update post coming soon) and the electric shock pains that...
Testing for Gestational Diabetes
Well, this is rather a spanner in the old works; I'm having to test four times a day for gestational diabetes due to the (apparent) gargantuan size of the baby within. It's not actually too much of an inconvenience - and at any rate, you do what you have to do when it...
Baby and Body: 19 Months Update
This is the biggest update yet, I reckon. Not in terms of length, but in terms of sudden developmental leap. I don't know whether it was because we took two weeks off at Christmas and so perhaps we were more attentive to Angelica than usual (I mean, she gets a lot of...
M&S (Non) Maternity Knickers. My Last Pair of Pants.
At 37 weeks pregnant I'm down to the last pair of pants that don't irritate my c-section scar, don't fall down and don't cut into my bump and make it all itchy. Maternity knickers are a real problem, I think, if you have a previous caesarean scar - you don't want...
The Car Seat Conundrum: Which Type to Buy?
OK, so conundrum is rather dramatic a word to use, but we are currently in a quagmire of confusion trying to work out which type of car seat we need for Angelica now that she has outgrown the Cybex Aton Q and needs more room to stretch her legs. In an entirely...
The Pregnancy Diaries: 36 Weeks
Lots happening this week, including the threat of Gestational Diabetes (massive baby measurements, especially abdominal, so I am having to check my blood sugar levels four times a day) and so I've stuck it all into one long rambling video. It's not often you get to...
Pregnancy Symptoms: The Differences With Baby 2
Now that I'm almost full term with my second baby, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at the differences between this pregnancy and my last, when I was pregnant with Angelica. Because - despite my husband saying that I moaned about all of the same things...
Pregnancy and the Wee of Disappointment
Imagine running through a train station because you need a wee. Let's say it's Euston station in London, for argument's sake, because if you get off at the far platform it's about seven miles to the loos. Anyway, you've been on the train for two hours and the loo was...
The Pregnancy Diaries: 34 Weeks
OK, let's take a look at what's been happening with the old bod for the last few weeks. Because man have I been tired. I don't remember being quite this physically exhausted last time at this stage - and I'm not talking about that hangover-style fatigue that plagues...
Baby and Body: 18 Months Update
I've come to a bit of a decision, with these update posts; I think that when New Baby arrives I'm going to amalgamate all of the updates into one so that the monthly post covers my own post-partum recovery, the new baby's development and also a little bulletin on what...
My Top Five Newborn Baby Essentials
With just a couple of months to go before New Baby arrives, I've been having a think about the equipment I found most useful when I came home from hospital. Here are the five things that I couldn't have lived without in the first few weeks with a brand new baby. Bear...
From Boob to Bottle: The Second Hurdle
*NOTE: this post was written on December 13th 2015 and I have only just found it, unpublished! So I thought it fitting to publish it an entire year later, to the day. Reading it has brought back many memories and sent me into a mini panic about the fact I'm about to...