Warning – I haven’t included anything too gory, but if you’re very sensitive or squeamish, you may want to skip this post, and any birth stories you come across!
It’s been nearly two months since Isla was born, and I finally feel more or less ready to share our birth story! I won’t be going into much gory detail, don’t worry, but I loved reading other people’s experiences (especially the positive ones!), so I thought it would only be fair to share! [ Read More… ] …
Now that Isla is well over a month old, it’s high time to share my third trimester experiences! [ Read More… ] …
Let me start this post by confessing that I am really, really excited to not wear maternity clothes ever again. Even though choices have become far more wearable over the past few years, the truth is that maternity clothing is expensive, you can’t wear it for very long and there just isn’t very much that would look flattering on a big bump. Having said that, it’s entirely possible to feel both comfortable and more or less stylish in maternity wear, and it’s relatively simple to achieve this without breaking the bank if you plan ahead a little bit. I’ve put together my five absolute must-have pieces that are getting me through all four seasons (from February to October, possibly the most annoying time period to be pregnant).
Before I got pregnant, and even during the first few weeks of pregnancy (before the sickness set in), I had lots and lots of expectations of how things would go. As with most things in life, everything turned out completely differently, and I thought it would be fun to share some of my somewhat naive expectations, and how they were (mostly) disappointed. [ Read More… ] …
During the first 15 weeks or so of my pregnancy, I was sick. Like, really, really sick. Sicker than I’ve ever been in my life. Morning Sickness is quite a common occurrence in pregnancy, and, according to the NHS, around 80% of all pregnant women experience nausea of varying degrees during their first trimester of pregnancy. This, however, was something else. [ Read More… ] …