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...
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...
Well, this week has been a bit of a shocker in terms of stress levels, what with packing boxes and having to drop off Mr Bear the cat at my parents' house and moving and then realising that there is absolutely no reception at all at the place we've moved to... I feel...
Creeping on in with the "26 weeks pregnant" diary entry one hour before the cut-off - it'll be 27 weeks by the time I wake up! I had massively good intentions for this blog last week - loads of post ideas and so on - but I have been moving house, so I hope you'll...
This was the week in which I was supposed to book a GP appointment as part of my "maternity care programme". Actually, this was the week I was supposed to attend my GP appointment, so I suppose, looking back, I should have booked it weeks ago. Or, because my local...
I bought this coat from Diane von Furstenberg last year, decided I loved it, ripped out all of the tags and a few weeks later (I'm not proud of this) decided I hated it. It felt too big and clumsy on me and it had no pockets. In a haze of shame and guilt, I wrapped it...
Okay, I'm holding my hands up and admitting defeat on this one: my pregnancy blog, The Uphill, is still not completely finished. But I feel as though I'll have given birth by the time I've twaddled about with it to the point where I'm completely happy, so here I am...
I stepped out of the door on Friday and managed to pull both of my calf muscles! Now please don't jump to any conclusions; it wasn't as though I was doing lunges out of the door or anything funny like that, just plain-old walking. My boots were my trusty old Belstaff...
Oooh, getting in there right at the last minute with my Week 23 diary entry! This week has mostly been dominated by very achey bones. Not all the time, just when I'm asleep (or trying to be asleep). Hip bones, rib bones, shoulder bones, thigh bones, it feels as though...
The first proper pregnancy feature! I imagine that there will be lots of cheers, because so many of you have asked for updates and posts, but also a few little groans, because some would prefer all pregnancy stuff to be as far away from here as is humanly possible....
Exactly a week ago, I was stressing about not being able to feel any movement and now, seven days later, the movements hardly stop! It's a very strange sensation, as I remarked in my 21 week diary entry (which, by the way, I only wrote a few days ago, so please...