Do you put photographs of your baby on the internet? Would you put photographs of your baby on the internet? I LOVE looking at other people’s babies, on facebook, on instagram, on their blogs.  It’s a wonderful way of keeping up to date with all the changes they go through, especially when you live a [...]

And so, because I don’t want a bag with a cupcake on it, and I can’t bring myself to spend £185 on the one I really want, I continue to search for a changing bag.  There are flowery ones, and shiny ones, stripey ones and leather ones.  There are bags designed to scream “I HAVE [...]

We have a nightly ritual, should John get home while I am still awake (and because of a certain giant chocolate thumb that hasn’t happened much recently), he reads to the baby (ie; to my tummy), and rubs Mama Bee Body Oil onto me.  The reading definitely gets the baby moving about and STEPPING ON [...]

The week before Christmas John and I met some friends in the pub for Wolf’s birthday drinks.  It was a lovely pub all dressed up for the festive season and I stopped crying just long enough to dress in something bright and cheerful, a dress that said “I AM ENJOYING THIS”, even if inside I [...]

John and I are doing three Ante-Natal courses, because nothing says you are prepared like hearing ‘it REALLY hurts’ from three different organisations.  We are doing NCT, because that’s what everyone else does and I hear they let you buy friends!  We’re also doing a local class in Crouch End called Birthing Matters, because it does, [...]

John has started reading to the baby, a few pages of ‘The Old Man and the Sea‘ every night, and also he’s clamping a set of Bose headphones to my stomach and playing an hour of Soothing Classical Music every evening.  We’re hoping that this will get the baby used to the sound of John’s voice, [...]

John and I are having a row.  Don’t get your knickers in a twist, it’s not a real row, it’s merely a disagreement, a discussion, after which we have reached a stalemate. It started because I don’t like nappy bags.  I mean specifically nappy bags that are designed to look like nappy bags.  There is a [...]

We decided not to buy anything baby related until January, in order to a) take advantage of any January sales that might be on, and b) not freak out too soon that, oh my god, this is actual baby stuff for an actual baby. So, what with it being January, we started to tick things [...]

I think one of the issues I am finding with being pregnant, apart from the mood swings, the bodily functions, the sleep problems, the expansion, the compulsion to throw something every time my boss walks into the room, the urge to hide under a blanket whenever someone looks me up and down, the way I [...]

I was told when I first became pregnant to look out for dreams, dreams that may give me clues to the gender of the baby as we have chosen not to find that out.  So far there have been two birth dreams: 1.  I give birth in a glass box to an Asian baby girl [...]