One of the things that has most surprised me about pregnancy: the absolutely outrageous things that people say to you. Totally and utterly insensitive, unthinking and - quite often - bizarre. Now I have to hold my hands up and say that I, too, have said some of the...
Pregnancy Week 35
I meant to say in last week's diary entry, but it was a short one and I forgot: I feel as though I keep jinxing myself a little bit when it comes to pregnancy ailments. Basically, I have had nothing to really complain about, health-wise, throughout my entire second...
Pregnancy Week 34
Creeping in with my 34 week pregnancy diary mere minutes before the deadline (Monday is my "new pregnancy week" day and it's ten to midnight) and I must warn you from the start that this is a short-but-sweet entry. For two reasons. Firstly, I have moved house - again!...
Pregnancy Week 33
I am having a little freak-out, this week, if truth be known. I'm overwhelmed with a sense of what I can only call unreadiness. Perhaps something to do with the fact that - really - baby could come at any time, yet I have no clothes for him/her, no nappies, no crib,...
Pregnancy Week 32
When doctors fill you with confidence... "I'm not sure which way the baby is lying, I'm afraid, I'm not much good at this!" In the words of Ace Ventura: alrighty then. What are you good at, Doctor? I hope we're not, by some random hand of fate, stuck together when I...
Pregnancy Week 31
Pregnancy Week 31, AKA, "sh*t gets real". It hadn't really hit home until this week that I am actually going to have a baby. Up until now, it has almost been an abstract concept: I've been so caught up with pregnancy and the different stages and wondering at all of...
Pregnancy Week 30
The memory part of my brain is now completely non-existent! I had this whole diary entry planned out in my head (there was a long-ish train journey to do) and it was - quite frankly - hilarious and interesting and worthy of some kind of journalistic award. But all...
Pregnancy Week 29
Pregnancy, at the moment, is being completely upstaged by ongoing accommodation issues. Our house renovations are going to take much longer than anticipated and so we won't be back home before the baby is born - it's all very unsettling and nerve-wracking. I'm usually...
Birthing and Pregnancy Chat with Caroline Hirons…
This post should probably be over on my pregnancy blog, The Uphill, but I know how many of you follow Caroline and I didn't want you to miss out! Though please do feel free to skip this one if you have no interest whatsoever in pregnancy. Or birthing. It was just a...
Topshop Maternity: Outfits for Every Occasion
I've been doing some styling this week; Topshop set me the task of creating a maternity mini-shoot for this advertorial*, finding different outfits for different occasions. A nice little challenge, as it has all been a bit dry on the old fashion front, recently -...
Pregnancy Body Oils: Mustela Stretch Marks Care
I've been testing out quite a few pregnancy body oils recently and I thought I'd start reporting back on a few of them. Now I know that opinion is divided on stretch mark oils, but I do feel that prevention is better than cure when it comes to these things, and...
Pregnancy Week 28
This week was the week when I started thinking sh*t, at some point in the not-too-distant-future, I'm actually going to have to give birth. I wasn't actually going to start thinking about birth just yet, because twelve weeks is a fair old amount of time to get used to...