Yesterday was officially my due date and this would have been my last Bump Diary entry for 40 weeks. Instead I am able to announce the safe arrival of my second baby who arrived last Tuesday via elective caesarean. He is now nearly a week old and I am once again completely in love with [...]
View Post arrival, baby, Birth Announcement, boy, Bump Diary, caesarean, fragile, home, hospital, injection, worldI will only have one more bump diary entry after this and the pregnancy journey will be nearing to a close, already. The start to week 38 hasn’t been such a great one and is the reason I am posting it a day late (not that I ever needed an excuse to be [...]
View Post Bump Diary, headache, midwife, migraine, pre-eclampsia, sleepToday we had a very important appointment at the hospital marking the 36 week point. A few weeks ago I mentioned that we spoke to a consultant midwife to discuss the possibility of an elective caesarean, following my previous emergency caesarean. The purpose of today’s appointment was to see whether we still wanted to proceed [...]
View Post Bump Diary, caesarean, dateThis week I have the freedom of being able to write at my leisure, within reason, as I am now on maternity leave. It still doesn’t feel quite real if I’m honest and just like I am taking annual leave. To think that I won’t be returning to work until next year is a very [...]
View Post Bump Diary, caesarean, diaphragm, faint, hospital bag, leave, lungs, maternity, overwieght, painting, PregnancyI can’t believe that I am actually 30 weeks pregnant. I have been in the third trimester for 2 weeks now and have barely thought about it compared to when I followed each and every week in detail in my first pregnancy. Besides a cold, I have been feeling fairly well but getting increasingly tired. [...]
View Post Bump Diary, caesarean, consultant, leave, linea nigra, maternity, measurements, nesting, scan, trimester, VBACYesterday I finally got to see my midwife after what had seemed like an eternity. I mentioned in my previous post about the length of time you have to wait between appointments in your second pregnancy and how surprised I was by it all, so it was finally good to be able to speak to [...]
View Post bloods, Bump Diary, measurements, midwife, scanWhen I came to write this post I had a moment where I got slightly confused over how many weeks pregnant I was. Now anybody that has ever been pregnant or knows anyone pregnant will know that a pregnant woman always knows the number of weeks she is. I usually fire it off immediately when [...]
View Post airport, Bump Diary, dates, family, midwife, position, PregnancyI have decided to space out my posts a little now, mainly as I have been a bit busy and also because I find all the weeks merging together and nothing much has changed. I haven’t been able to spend as much time as I would like on my blog and I keep bleating on [...]
View Post Bump DiaryWelcome to my festive blog makeover! In months I am 6 months pregnant today. Or my ‘V’ day as some people would call it. I have heard the term quite a bit and it basically means that from 24 weeks your baby is termed viable. I remember reading all about this with Beastie, in books [...]
View Post Babycentre, Bump Diary, consultant, forums, milestone, viableI have left it two weeks since my last entry, I’ve slipped already and I knew I would. There have been a couple of reasons being that I have been quite busy and that I felt there wasn’t much to report last week. So two weeks on from last time and I am feeling quite [...]
View Post Bump Diary, ligaments, muscles, sciatica, tummy