I am sure many expectant Mums will be delighted to hear that M&S have just launched a brand new baby area! When I was first pregnant with the boy it was such an exciting but confusing time. Which pram did I need? Three wheels or four? Which car seat? Did I want a cot or a cot-bed? How many baby grows /muslins/bottles/blankets were going to be required and where on earth was I going to store them? Mr B and I spent countless weekends visiting store after store, glazed expressions on our faces, becoming increasingly more bemused with each new find. Did we really NEED a video monitor? ...
Silent Sunday 07/07/2013
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Patience
"Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue." Ambrose Bierce Patience is something I currently possess in very limited quantities. Quite unreasonably really. Baby number two is not even due until 4th July but somehow I had figured it would be here already. And I feel a bit cheated. I have hit that end-stage of pregnancy where I have had enough. I am sick...a lot. I am mahoosive. I am ridiculously hormonal and daren't watch anything remotely serious for fear of the floods of tears that will follow. I bawled my eyes out at Question Time last week. ...
Thirty-four weeks and counting
Thirty-four weeks into pregnancy number one I was so ready for W's arrival. Match-ready you might say. The nursery was freshly painted, cot assembled, drawers filled with clean and neatly ironed baby-grows and blankets. I had bottles and breast-pumps at the ready, hospital bag packed and the delivery suite number on speed-dial. Thirty-four weeks into pregnancy number two is an entirely different story. The 'nursery' is currently a wasteland of old and new mattresses piled in a massive mattress mountain atop a partly dis-assembled bed. A mountain randomly strewn with leaflets issued ...
If Only I’d Known…
With just fifteen weeks to go until the arrival of baby number two, I have been thinking a lot about the arrival of number one just lately. I was recently asked what were the things I wish I had known whilst pregnant that first time. I could dwell on the fact that W's birth was long, complicated, traumatic and still ultimately the best thing I have ever managed but is that going to help anyone? Nope. So...the stuff you really need to know and I wish that I had... ...that when my first contractions started but I still felt ok enough to take the time to apply my ...
Silent Sunday: 31/12/2012
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Open season…
If you ever start a sentence with "Do you mind if I ask...?", my advice would be stop right there. Chances are they will. So, any of you who follow me on twitter will know that on occasion over the last year a few people have asked if I am pregnant again. No I am not and yes I DO mind you asking, is generally the response. Followed by a bit of a rant. And a brief period of starvation. Thankfully the belly-busting is beginning to work and this hasn't happened for a while. Phew. What has begun to happen though, AN AWFUL LOT, is people asking if, though more often when, we will ...