It’s official, there are EVEN MORE things to worry about after birth.

Had an appointment with the obstetrician today. This was, of course, brilliant, as I got to leave work early to go to the hospital and then got home early enough to watch Escape to the Country.However, despite the fact that my actual appointment with the obstetrician lasted, as I had predicted, five minutes, and was…

****Breaking News*****

IT’S AAAAALLLLLLIIIIIIVVVVVVEEEEEE!!!!!! Well, it was at 8am this morning anyway.  Let’s hope that’s a promising sign for the future. Went to my scan today.  There was one awful moment when the sonographer put the probe on my belly that I thought everything had gone wrong, as the baby was lying completely still and flat on…

‘Twas the night before the scan and all through the house…..I am stressing out, googling like a hyperactive louse

First scan tomorrow and I am feeling completely calm and zen-like about this. In other words I have spent the entire day sat in my flat googling the following search terms:Period pains 12 weeks pregnant (need to know if this is normal)12 weeks 6 days pregnant stomach flat (and is this normal?)Chances of missed miscarriage…

Knackered. Knackered. Too knackered to do anything. At all.

Knackered.  And it’s not even 7pm.  And yet, if I were to go to bed, it would take me ages to get to sleep, and then I would keep waking up and running to the loo every five minutes.  Aargh.  Honestly do not think I can face going back to work tomorrow. I have, naturally,…

Things I Will Not Be Putting on Facebook

Things I will not do when the baby is born (assuming it makes it that far.  FINGERS CROSSED.  There are a lot of horror stories on fertlityfriends.co.uk which haunt my every waking moment.  And according to some statistics I read yesterday, which were from the fertility clinic not the Interwebs and therefore probably more trustworthy,…

Cruel and Unusual Symptoms of Pregnancy

I’m back!  Already!  After just one day! Obviously this means that one of my hundreds of New Year’s Resolutions is to write more often. The other main one is to clean the flat but I still haven’t done that. I’m using morning sickness as an excuse, especially since I threw up three times this morning…