We’re just back from our Easter break in Bournemouth, which was Eliza’s first trip out of London (she slept through the night twice – it must have been the sea air as she’s not repeated it since). However, the week before saw a visit from my friend Nick – eagle-eyed readers of this blog may…
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If You’re Pregnant, See My Baby Bump Week By Week
Are You Pregnant? Take A Look At My Baby Bump Week By Week And Read My Weekly Pregnancy Diary Are you pregnant and looking for a baby bump week by week? Take a look at my baby bump, week by week! When I was pregnant, all I wanted to do was compare my baby bump…
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Welcome to the world, Eliza Grace
Baby C, aka Eliza Grace, was born in the early hours of last Thursday morning at King’s College Hospital in south London, weighing 6 lbs 10. Although she looks a lot like Alex, especially with her dark hair, she’s inherited my impatience gene; she took just under 10 hours…
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A guide to the maternity services at King’s College Hospital
One of the mums-to-be from our NCT group sent round a link to a video that’s a guide to the maternity services at King’s College Hospital – where we’ll all be giving birth shortly – that explains all about the labour and birth facilites there. The video covers a variety of topics including having your…
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Due date: in which we discover exactly when Baby C will be putting in an appearance
My EDD is 31st January. Which, as my football-loving husband keeps joking with me about, is also the football transfer deadline day (for those of you lucky enough not to know what this is, it’s the date when the footballer club-to-club transfer window shuts in a flurry of last-minute moves, and a big fuss on…
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What things should we do before the baby arrives?
We’re now over the 30 week mark, and in the words of my mum, who texted me the other day when I mourned the sad state of my once perfect belly button, ‘go Baby C!’ One of my pregnancy iPhone apps gives a daily progress update, and ever since it went from being ten plus…
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Three things relating to clothes, in time
Past: when I was a teenager, I went through a typical phase of loving retro clothing. I would often moan at my mum about why she didn’t keep any of her original Biba clothes from the 60’s, which would have been both a) incredibly cool for my 16 year old self and b) have saved…