An update at 21 weeks pregnant… We are down at the beach, building sandcastles and eating ice-cream. Hey, if the baby wants it, who am I to argue? Pregnancy-wise, at 21 weeks pregnant I’m actually feeling fine and it’s a positive forecast for the foreseeable future (fingers optimistically crossed!) I’m much less tired, despite Eliza…
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20 Weeks Pregnant Update: Second Child Syndrome
Read more20 Weeks Pregnant: An Update On My Pregnancy Are you 20 weeks pregnant? Here’s a pregnancy update An update at 20 weeks pregnant… 20 Weeks Pregnant Baby Bump: Can The Baby Have Second Child Syndrome – Already? I think the new baby might be a victim of second child syndrome, already. It occurred to me…
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The early baby days
Read moreHow did you feel in the first few days of new babydom? Blissfully content, wafting round full of love and all the good hormones, gazing in wonder at your baby? Or slightly confused, clueless, tired, tearful, tired?
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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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Pregnancy week 18: heartbeat
Read moreAn update at 18 weeks pregnant…what can you expect from this point in the second trimester and what pregnancy signs, symptoms and feelings will you be experiencing? This week at 18 weeks pregnant I heard the baby’s heartbeat for the first time since the scan, which is always lovely, isn’t it? What wasn’t so lovely…
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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…