Category Archives: Pregnancy

What to expect when you’re expecting…and beyond

Posted on April 4, 2013 by gillian

What websites did you read when you were pregnant? Like most mums-to-be, I couldn’t get enough of information about the fruit size of my baby that week, what that strange feeling was, and finding out what spectacularly weird thing was going … Continue reading →

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Minding the – baby age – gap

Posted on April 2, 2013 by gillian

What’s the perfect gap between babies? I know, déjà vu, I’ve talked about this before. But it’s been on my mind today as I realised that if I got pregnant this month then there would be exactly two years between … Continue reading →

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A very royal Baby on Board – but would you wear the badge?

Posted on March 21, 2013 by gillian

Watching the news last night, the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was visiting Baker Street underground station to help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the tube. A TFL official gave her a Baby on Board badge, resulting in much hilarity all … Continue reading →

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Bump to baby to birthday number one

Posted on February 19, 2013 by gillian

Here’s the past nineteen months in blog posts: Bump: 12 weeks (in utero) my pregnancy week by week and my pregnancy diary in Pregnancy & Birth magazine Birth: Welcome to the world, Eliza and her birth story Baby: Eliza at one … Continue reading →

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Transfer deadline day

Posted on January 31, 2013 by gillian

Today is the football transfer deadline day. What’s that you say, football? Really? Yes! It’s a day I’ll now always remember as a year ago today it was also Eliza’s due date, which was coincidentally fitting for a baby with a … Continue reading →

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My pregnancy diary in Pregnancy & Birth magazine

Posted on December 11, 2012 by gillian

I’m really thrilled to have been asked to appear in the December ‘Pregnancy Diary’ feature in Pregnancy & Birth magazine, along with lots of photos of all three of us (I loved reading P&B when I was pregnant, and also … Continue reading →

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting – DVD prize giveaway

Posted on November 1, 2012 by gillian

What did you least expect when you were expecting? For me it was the following: Going off one of my favourite things – avocados – to the extent that even now, the thought of them makes me feel queasy The … Continue reading →

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Talk Mum guest post – The Baby Show

Posted on November 1, 2012 by gillian

As previously mentioned, this week I’ve written a guest post over on TalkMum.com, all about the The Baby Show in London. Talk Mum is a community for parents and parents-to-be, supported by Pregnacare vitamins  (something I seem to have been taking constantly … Continue reading →

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On fertility problems, and finding out I was pregnant

Posted on June 1, 2012 by gillian

A year ago this week I found out I was pregnant. It was the biggest shock of my life,  in the best possible way. It was a shock because I’d least expected it to happen then, as we’d been trying … Continue reading →

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Eliza’s birth story – an unexpectedly quick induction of labour

Posted on May 5, 2012 by gillian

I thought I’d post my birth story today to coincide with International Midwife day. I received such amazing care from midwives, both in the hospital (despite it being incredibly busy) and from the community midwife team at my doctors surgery (who came out to … Continue reading →

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