I paused before I settled down to write this post in order to throw two Rennie tablets into my mouth. That, you see, pretty much summarises how this week has been – an unpleasant rollercoaster of heartburn infused with a regular, sometimes furiously urgent devouring of chalk antacids. Names haven’t been discussed… Read More
It’s another double update this week – the reasons being two-fold. Reason number one being a stressful week with site issues, and reason number two being a much simpler ‘because there was nothing to report’. Heartburn is starting to make itself known more now. Rather than being a mere discomfort it has, once… Read More
19 weeks! I know I have said it before (and probably said it several times during previous pregnancies) but this pregnancy is flying by! I can’t believe that next week we’ll be at the official halfway point, although given that we’ll be having a caesarean at around 38 weeks we are already at… Read More
Is it me or does this pregnancy seem to be flying by? Perhaps it is that I am ever-busy with the normal everyday life of living and working, or maybe it’s one of those things that signifies me getting older? At 38-years-old I am officially classed as an ‘older mum’. Positively ancient, by… Read More
Another week down and another week closer to the halfway mark. Knowing that the baby will be delivered by c-section a while earlier than its due date means that I can celebrate reaching the midway milestone sooner than I ordinarily would. This makes me happy. Pregnancy isn’t something that I feel I ‘do’… Read More
Last week was a paradox of sorts – indifferently quiet on the pregnancy front yet frantically busy in every other aspect. Intentions to update this diary were delayed hourly at first, followed by the promise of tomorrow. As you can tell, tomorrow never came… well, until today that is, and so the… Read More