This is a subject which has been playing on my mind a lot recently and while I’m no means an expert, my own twin pregnancy was full of ups and downs, some tears, some laughter and a lot of smiles. Looking back over medical care I received there are things that have left me feeling … [Read more…]
One of the items I have been looking forward to buying during this pregnancy is a new changing bag for the twins. Of course when I found out we were expecting two babies I knew we would need something with plenty of room. Not only will I have two newborns and a toddler but it would … [Read more…]
Last week my birth story had left you at the end of yet another day of my long labour. I still wasn’t in what midwives would class as ‘established labour’ and I had been getting pains for over 48 hours. Towards the end of the day I just started to lose it and I was crying uncontrollably, mostly through … [Read more…]
Carrying on from the start of my birth story for Flashback Friday last week; I was waiting to find out if I was going to be admitted to hospital or be sent home for the second time. I was sent into a little room to be examined and we waited anxiously for a midwife. I … [Read more…]
Just thought I would share a photo this week to carry on my pregnancy story. This was taken at the beginning of August so I was about 37 weeks pregnant. I was starting to feel pretty uncomfortable and the flat shoes I had on were about the only shoes I could fit my feet into. The … [Read more…]
Last week I carried on my pregnancy story with the 20 week scan. Once that is out of the way every thing starts to get real and exciting and we finally started to buy some little bits for baby and then move onto buying some big bits for baby. I spent so long researching everything, … [Read more…]
This week I’m carrying on from my last installant in my pregnancy story, the first scan. It was starting to become noticeable that I was pregnant and pretty much everyone knew now. I had a big pregnancy book borrowed from my sister-in-law which I was checking far too often to see what size the baby was and what had developed. Me and my husband had … [Read more…]
The last post in this series was all about us finding out we were pregnant so I’m continuing that for this week. I found the first 12 weeks of pregnancy quite nerve wrecking. I didn’t have proper morning sickness but I felt queasy and dizzy and couldn’t eat a lot of food. So much was going … [Read more…]
I’ve been writing on my blog for a while now and I thought it was about time I started talking about my pregnancy and birth, for those of you who are interested in such things. If you are not, please ignore my emotional ramblings! October 2010; me and my husband had just married and we … [Read more…]