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 appeared in it last year). Although I did document lots of my pregnancy highs and woes…
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Eliza’s birth story – an unexpectedly quick induction of labour
I thought I’d post my induction of labour birth story (a propess induction 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 our house for three…
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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…