I mentioned this on the "affordable" stretch marks roundup, but I'll repeat: I know that beauty people are divided in their opinion of stretch mark oils. Or just the use of body oils in general to prevent stretch marks. From my own personal viewpoint, I have no...
Whoosh! Just squeaking in with this week's diary entry, I reckon! Week 41, the week where the bump has become so heavy I have to hold it up on the daily speed-walk because it feels as though something might fall out! (Have taken to a daily dog-walking session that...
This video was originally entitled "Pregnancy Skincare Habits I'm Keeping!" but it was all a bit sensational and you know how I like to stay low-key... So we're onto Pregnancy Beauty Tips for Glowing Skin, which is very accurate because my skin has been glowing like a...
Methods suggested by the midwife for "getting things started" and gently inducing my labour: sex, a sweep, fresh pineapple. Also light bouncing - a mini trampoline was suggested - and walking sideways up the stairs. All said with a slightly tongue-in-cheek expression,...
Please see "why the rush?" for many of my feelings on Pregnancy Week 40; my time seems to be massively taken up with looking for gross signs of labour such as the loss of the mucus plug. Give me strength. I was hoping that I'd get a relaxing week in before the baby...
It has taken my entire pregnancy for something to happen that has me truly, 100% stumped: why is it that everyone goes bat-shit crazy as soon as you reach forty weeks? Is it coming yet? Any signs? Are you going to get induced? Oh my GOD you must be so tired of it by...
Just drafting out a few sentences here, in case I go into labour before I write a proper diary entry! If this cuts off at a weird point, without a photo, then I've more than likely gone into labour without being able to amend it. I'm scheduling for this Saturday so it...
I've been trying to write this "fertility journey" post for nearly a year, now, but had various hangups and issues about how much of my private life I really wanted to reveal and kept putting it off. However, I feel that it's important to get it out there before I...
Before I was pregnant I seriously couldn't understand why expectant mothers always seemed to wear stripes. And then my bump developed into something the size of a hot air balloon and I worked out why stripes were so appealing: it's a kind of "if you can't beat 'em,...
This week has been mostly fuelled by vast amounts of refined sugar. I know. It makes me feel terribly guilty, but I just don't seem to be able to stop myself from reaching for the sweets, the Coca Cola, the ice lollies. The simple remedy would be not to buy them, but...
Having reached the last couple of weeks of my pregnancy, I've been doing a little thinking about what I actually needed, wardrobe-wise, as my baby bump grew. In the first three or four months, the main focus was just on getting comfortable; there wasn't a mountainous...
I've done some preliminary research into cooling foot creams and gels before - you may remember last summer, when I praised the benefits of Weleda's Foot Balm - but I had never really seen the point of them. Until now. Late pregnancy, one and a half weeks to go until...