... I'm feeling hormonal and emotional and not in the mood to put up with sanctimonious bitches. So here is a rant about a sanctimonious bitch. Let me start by saying I am visibly, heavily pregnant now. You can't not notice. I am demonstrably convex. The next point, I feel, is that I am a visibly, heavily pregnant woman, carrying a huge heavy ( Read more... )

...is weird. Apart from all the discomfort and worry, there's the part (which happens to be about now) when you can see defined little limbs roaming across your tummy. It's odd but kind of cool.

I know for a fact that the NHS gets much more bad press than good - a big part of my job is keeping up with the headlines about our beloved, beleaguered health service, and more often than not, it's "the NHS has failed to do this" or "the NHS doesn't have enough money to do that". Let me say, therefore, that I absolutely love it. A couple of weeks ( Read more... )

Someone shared this video from St John Ambulance just now ( Read more... )

I think my IBS is worse since getting pregnant. Previously, it was just creamy food/drinks that would set me off (e.g. hot chocolate with whipped cream = nope), but now it seems to be oily stuff as well, which rules out a lot of the Italian food I love so much. For example, this afternoon, even at Pizza Express, my stomach decided it couldn't ( Read more... )

Apparently, it's quite normal in the second trimester to feel breathless/faint, as the increasing size of the foetus puts pressure on your blood vessels. In my case, when Babby wakes up, she likes to roll over a few times, which, now that she's bigger, makes it quite hard not to pass out.

Who the fuck designed pregnancy?!

Babby is very discernibly moving now - to the point that I saw a little limb bob up under my dress yesterday. Thing is, this is yet another thing medical professionals tell you about that You Must Worry About. You should worry if Babby isn't moving enough but also if they're moving too much. They claim there should be a pattern after a while and ( Read more... )

The other day, we started doing some baby shopping with my mother-in-law. She picked up a bedding set with aliens and spaceships on it and said, "wouldn't this be great for a boy?" This set off a new set of worries in my little brain. I do not want to teach my daughter that aliens and spaceships and monsters and mud and adventure are for boys, ( Read more... )

...I'm having one of those days where I feel so crap emotionally that I don't even want to speak. I'm hoping a quiet day and a good night's sleep will see me through. I'm also hoping it's just hormones...

...girl! Probably! They can never be 100% sure and she had her foot in the way, but that's their best guess. Tell you what, though, it was a faff and a half just getting to that point. My appointment was delayed 20 minutes, so I was basically wetting myself (they make you have a full bladder as it's easier to see) and then (being her mother's ( Read more... )