I love the pregnancy yoga classes LushTums run so when I found out that they had an afternoon class that was all about getting you prepared for birth class I jumped at the chance to attend. As the course runs for only an afternoon it is only covering birth but Read more…
There are a lot of things that they never tell you about being pregnant – one of them is just how many times you might have to have blood tests. Before I was pregnant I knew that I would have to have at least one blood tests where I would Read more…
This week is a huge milestone as it is only 100 days until my due date and has been a hectic week of appointments too! I am not sure how pregnant ladies with a full time job manage all these appointments – this week I have had four different pregnancy Read more…
I am officially passed the “bump or burrito” stage of pregnancy but now I’m facing the infamous twins question instead! In November I found out I was pregnant. The same week I got the two lines on a pee stick I also started counselling from Headway after months of waiting Read more…
This week I had the joys of finding out how busy trains and pregnant ladies do not mix. A few months ago I was asked to run a training session at the Korana Centre on Social Media. I love helping people understand and learn more about social media to help Read more…
A few weeks ago I started to scratch – this week the itching it got worse. I am ashamed to say that I have put off writing this week’s blog post – it was a really hard time and having to relive the week was not something that I wanted Read more…
So we know we are having a girl – now we just have to tell people! Seeing our little girl last week at the ultrasound was amazing – everything from her little feet to finding out the gender. For BF the change from not wanting to even know until born Read more…
Ultrasounds are always exciting – this was the second and possibly last one that we would get. This second ultrasound, as it was planned at 20 weeks could also tell us what the gender of our little baby was going to be. Still struggling with all the itching and being Read more…
Not every pregnancy is straight forward; the same goes for midwife appointments. Sometimes pregnancy appointments can involve drama or frustration. It is the week before my 20 week scan and it is filled with appointments. For me this week has involved tears, fears and bleeding. For the last week I Read more…
All through my pregnancy I have not felt like I looked pregnancy. I started with a lot of squishy parts; I had a bump but it was made up of squash-able fat. For weeks neither me or BF could see a difference – to us I was still the same width. Read more…