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Pregnancy diary: week 32 – “you knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm...
This week I’ve been thinking about knitting. It’s not me who’s been doing the knitting – I fear it would take me longer than a 9 month pregnancy to knit even one item of newborn clothing, having not...
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Pregnancy diary: week 35 – birth plan
As yesterday was my last day at work (I’ll come back to that in a mo….), all of a sudden giving birth seems like a much more imminent event! So I thought it was about time that I write my ‘birth plan’....
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Pregnancy diary: week 37 – full-term baby and antenatal class 2
Well we’ve reached a full-term pregnancy, which is a nice feeling! If baby had been born last week, he/she would still have been classed as premature, but if he/she is born this week (hypothetically,...
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Pregnancy diary: week 38 – midwife appointment and antenatal class 3
And I’m still sitting here with a bump! I usually at least start writing this weekly post quite early in the week, as I can’t always guarantee how long I’ll get to write during Andrew’s nap later in...
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Pregnancy diary: week 39 – bump still here
I was thinking about starting to write this post yesterday, with the thought that it might help to start labour, as then I would have wasted my time in writing something that I wouldn’t have got round...
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Family of four
Just a quick post to say that baby Joel arrived safely and quickly! – I’ll write a full birth story at some point. We’re doing well and enjoying welcoming a fourth little person on board Family...
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Another fast birth story
As I didn’t have a blog when Andrew was born, I didn’t write his birth story online. I did, however, write it in his baby journal, but that was in pen and paper (that’ll be a rare thing for him to look...
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Bump time lapse video
Click HERE to watch the video I’ve been meaning to get round to this for a while, but it never quite seemed to get to the top of my list of things to do on the laptop whilst feeding – possibly because...
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Beginners breastfeeding – essential info and (not-so) essential kit
This post started life as a paragraph in the essential baby kit list that I recently posted, but it got too big so it warranted its own space. The essential things you need to start breastfeeding are...
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What’s in a name?
It occurred to me whilst thinking about writing about Joel’s dedication day (which I’ll post soon) that I’ve not written about how we chose the boys’ names. We didn’t know the sex of either of them...
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