Almost since the day we took Edward home from the hospital I’ve been wondering when was the best time for baby number two. I love Edward and I’m surprised how much I enjoy being a mother. I’m not sure what I expected but the last seven and a half months have been exciting and exhilarating as well as hard work and exhausting 🙂 However, I’m 33 and keen to expand my little family before too long so when I was given the opportunity to review The Second Baby Survival Guide I jumped at the chance. The book was written by…
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I have been working on my pincushion for the swap hosted by Claire. I was inspired by one of my favourite craft books and got to try French knots. It’s all finished way ahead of the deadline next month which is good. I’ve decided to take a small bag of sewing in my hospital bag tomorrow – just in case I have some spare time!
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Two days left of my old life before my new life begins. I think it’s finally sinking in and I’m glad I’ve had some time to prepare myself for the procedure and get excited about finally meeting my new baby. It takes me ages to adjust to change, I’m terrible at doing new things and would much rather pull a blanket over my head than confront my fears and challenge myself! I spent yesterday ordering books about post-caesarean recovery as well as some hideously large pants, a hypnotherapy CD and a caesarean belt – anything which may help my recovery…
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Here’s the parcel of goodies I’ve prepared for my partner as part of the Spring colours swap on swap-bot. We had to send 5 items in green, light blue and pink colours so I’ve chosen felt squares, stickers, buttons, beads and some handmade items too. I hope she likes them! We met up with our NCT ante-natal class for a delicious lunch at the Junction Tavern today. It was so nice to see everyone although it felt very strange telling them our baby will be born on Thursday. I still haven’t got my head round the fact I’m going to…
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Yesterday was spent in the labour ward at the hospital having the external cephalic version or ECV. We arrived at 8.30 and finally left at 3.30 and the procedure only lasted 15 minutes! I couldn’t find much information about the technique and I’m glad I didn’t otherwise I don’t think I would have gone through with it. First I had my temperature and blood pressure taken, the fetal heartbeat was monitored for 45 minutes and I did a urine test. A doctor did an ultrasound on a small machine to check the baby was still breech. Around 10.45 I saw…
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Dare I say I’ve felt a bit bored today? I feel like I’m in limbo with no work but no baby either. I had great plans to spend these few weeks making bibs, baby quilts, taggies and nesting but a strange kind of ennui has come over me. Instead I spent the day watching terrible day time tv whilst obsessively reading and commenting on pregnancy message boards. When my poor husband came home from work I made him take me to Tesco’s so I could stock up on magazines, snacks and more items for my hospital bag. Yes, I’m far…
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Eek, week 37 already! This morning consisted of a midwife appointment, a scan and a consultation with the doctor. Fortunately my placenta was fine, it wasn’t low lying at all so no danger of placenta praevia. Phew. But I wish we had asked for a second opinion at the time or just rung my midwife. Apparently it’s quite rare for the placenta to move and we could probably have saved ourselves some worry. However, the poor baby is still breech (and seems happy to stay that way!). According to the NCT, between 3–4% of babies are in the breech position…
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Claire is hosting a fun swap to make a pincushion sent with a couple of small haberdashery style items. Make sure you sign up before the 14th March if you’re interested. I’ve already been planning what to make for my partner. We’ve had a fun weekend trying to get the house tidy in case of any news at our midwife and can appointments tomorrow. We went to John Lewis and finally ordered some fabric to be made (by my mum) into curtains for the nursery and ordered a tumble drier. We also went for lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe…
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Today was my first day of maternity leave. I only worked two days this week and after our bad news on Tuesday I decided to finish work yesterday instead of today. But how to spend this in-between time? Baby not yet here but too tired to go anywhere or do anything. I decided to ebay some items I’ve had hanging around. So, if you have a burning desire to own some Orla Kiely or Cath Kidston items check out my auctions. Tonight we went to a waterbirth information session at hospital. I’ve been planning a waterbirth for so long that…