‘Mummy, when am I getting chicken hox?’ – Eliza ‘Isn’t it funny that neither of them have had the pox? When’s it going to happen?’ Me to Alex, Alex to me, many times ‘Can you come and get Florence please, she’s covered in spots’ – Nursery, yesterday
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Get well soon
Read moreA short note from the sickbay; we have a plague house this week. Eliza has tonsillitis. She’s hardly ever ill, so it’s been very strange. We knew something was up when she started refusing Calpol (I’m pleased to report that Calpol still tastes as good as I remember though. Why don’t more things taste of Calpol?…
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Slightly alternative ways to induce labour
Read moreThroughout this pregnancy, I’ve mentioned several times that I was in no hurry for the baby to arrive. Me? I’d never be one of those impatient people complaining about a non-arrival for weeks and weeks. I would be calm and patient and serene, and waft around in floaty kaftans, meditating and chatting introspectively to my…
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Fantasy hospital bags; what would you *really* pack in yours?
Read moreLast night I had Braxton Hicks of such intense ferocity that they woke me up at 4am and jolted my brain into thinking about getting ready for the baby. So this morning, in the style of all panicking procrastinaters, I made some more lists. And top of these was ‘pack hospital bag.’
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Pregnancy week 26: a risky business?
Read moreA pregnancy update at 26 weeks pregnant… Pregnancy and being high risk: In my last update, all the way back in the distant and misty times of being 25 weeks pregnant, I wrote about labour and birth choices. A couple of people asked why this was an issue, so in my 26 weeks pregnant update,…
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Can You Work Up To Your Due Date? Holly Willoughby & Working In Pregnancy –
Read moreCan You Work Up To your Due Date…? Can you work up to your due date when you are pregnant? How long before your due date should you stop working? Can you work up to 39 weeks pregnant? What’s the legal perspective when it comes to work? I’ve been thinking about this over the past…
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Parkinson’s Awareness Week 2014
Read moreI’ve written before about the impact that Parkinson’s has had on our lives. It’s a progressive neurological condition that one person in every 500 has in the UK, including three members of my immediate family, and my Dad. It’s difficult to quantify the effect that it has had on all of us, really. It isn’t an…
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