Oh God. It’s started already. I’ve just been caught boasting on Facebook

Phew. All appears to be well with Little ‘Un, at least according to the 20 week scan. Of course, now that I’m home I’m fretting again due to backache and lack of movement and am thinking maybe the scan machine killed it with hitherto undiscovered toxic rays. Not it.  He. Yes, it’s a boy apparently….

Read More

Eagerly anticipating the birth of the Messiah

20 week scan tomorrow. Obviously this is terrifying, and I will not go into the list of horrific ailments that could be detected at this point, all of which I have googled multiple times. Anyway, my bump is continuing to grow at a somewhat alarming rate, and now I even have backache (hopefully this is…

Read More

“But what would happen, Miss, if the baby had a small head and huge shoulders, and it got stuck?”

I think I can now confirm (sort of.  Almost.  I mean, I think this is what I’m feeling) that the Wee One is moving around in there.  Like, officially.  In fact, I’m pretty sure s/he just punched me three times in the last few seconds.  It is SO WEIRD! And now the cat is out…

Read More

First Foray into Topshop Maternity Ends in Disaster at Shocking Realisation that Big Clothes are Boring

Urgghhh. I have quite possibly the World’s Worst Cold. Literally, it is so bad that on Friday I even had to take a day off work.  With a cold.  It’s the sort of cold that one normally only gets on holiday, at some point towards the end, after ten whole days and nights of drinking…

Read More

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…

Read More

****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…

Read More

‘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…

Read More

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,…

Read More

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,…

Read More

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…

Read More