I haven’t had any sleep for days.  I literally cannot properly finish a sentence.  I made it into work today but I have no idea why I bothered because I genuinely believe it’s possible that everyone in the office is imaginary. I go to bed, all propped up with pillows, having been to a very [...]

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 [...]

If I give birth in the pool, do you think I should wear a bikini top or not? I can’t see you being happy to be totally naked, but it’s fine if you are so it’s your choice That’s what I was thinking, just letting it all hang out, boobs akimbo, it’s really not me… [...]

Carpal Tunnel.  What the hell?  What kind of pregnancy side effect is CARPAL BLOODY TUNNEL?!  I wake up in the middle of the night with cramped claw hands, I can’t bend my fingers properly until 11am.  I was told to try and sleep with my hands down by my sides rather than on the pillow, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]