So phase #99293 of our building work is finished, and we finally have two completed rooms in our house. Bizarrely, they were also the two most expensive, and one of them wasn’t even a room before. It’s our new bathroom, and new downstairs loo (converted / created out of a cupboard). It’s been, erm, interesting…
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19 Weeks Pregnant: Do We Find Out The Sex, Second Time Round?
Read more19 Weeks Pregnant: Here’s My 19 Weeks Pregnant Bump And 19 Week Diary Pregnancy week 19…what can you expect from being 19 weeks pregnant and the second trimester? Here’s my 19 weeks pregnant diary, and 19 weeks pregnant bump: 19 Weeks Pregnant: Do You Find Out The Sex? I’m talking about sex…baby. No, not like…
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Five mum and baby beauty finds
Read moreI’m a bit of reformed beauty junkie. OK, so only ‘reformed’ because I don’t work in central London any more, where I had easy access to big chemists and the delights of Space NK and so on. And loads of time to kill waiting for friends in the evening, and delayed trains, and a full-time…
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How To Pick A Perfect Baby Name
Read moreHow To Pick A Perfect Baby Name How to pick a perfect baby name…well it’s hard, isn’t it? Picking a perfect baby name seems like the fun part of pregnancy and birth. Everyone has a name they’ve loved since childhood, or some kind of mental list of cool names you could use. Turns out it’s…
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Can you really take children to a Gordon Ramsay restaurant?
Read moreOne of the things I miss the most about our pre-baby life is going out for dinner whenever we felt like it; to celebrate, on special occasions, or just because. And often because we had no food in the house, which used to happen quite frequently as we didn’t need to worry about it back…
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17 Weeks Pregnant: Sleeping The Sleep Of The Second Trimester
Read moreHere’s My Latest Pregnant Update At 17 Weeks Pregnant So we’re in week 17 of pregnancy, what’s that like? Well, I’m 17 weeks pregnant and TIRED. Here’s more about pregnancy week 17…but first… My 17 Weeks Pregnant Baby Bump 17 Weeks Pregnant Symptoms (I’m TIRED) Lost: one burst of second trimester energy. If found, please return to: Gill, the…
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The truth about two children
Read moreWhat’s the truth about two children? “You’re going to have your hands full!” a nurse told me at my very first antenatal appointment, on hearing it was my second baby. She would shortly jab me in the arm with a needle, so was probably only trying to distract me with small talk, but sheesh, thanks…