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Memories of less happy times.
Facebook memories presents a rollercoaster of past highlights and lowlights at this time of year. Several major anniversaries fall around the middle of March. My mother has been dead for just over 8 years, and my grandfather for 6. It can be a bit of a mixed bag, likely to trip me up occasionally. Here‘s a selection from today and yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Birth story for Michael
41 weeks and 5 days. He’d kept me waiting long enough and finally we were approaching the end stages. It’d been a busy day and this was my second trip out to Blaricum hospital, following my check-up that morning with the clinical team to assess the baby’s health and to schedule an induction for 3 days’ time. “Hi Judith! It’s not gonna be long now ( Read more... ) -
12 weeks tomorrow & all is well!
Just had my NT scan / Combi test.
All looks fab, low risk for everything, all body parts present & accounted for, 4 chamber heart view already clearly seen, 2 kidneys clearly seen, can already make out 3 strands in umbilicus (with about 95% certainty), brain, stomach, nose bone, 2 hands & 2 feet with 5 digits each. In short, everything attached in ( Read more... ) -
The Fairer Sex
Girl or boy? A question which seemingly occupies most of the world around me - from family & friends, right down to the random lady who walks her dogs down the street every day, and the elderly couple I often see at the supermarket. “After 3 boys, you must be really hoping for a girl, right?” Well, actually it’s a lot less simple than that ( Read more... ) -
The Help
The novel loaned but never returned ( Read more... ) -
happy birthday to me! - we now know what flavour number 7 is!
Yesterday was my 38th birthday. Steve and I had a day off, with both kids in creche. First time since I went back to work after Josh was born.Really lovely. Went out for lunch, had a wander round town, watched some junky telly, ate too much chocolate & had a nap. The nicest birthday I've had in years ( Read more... ) -
baby number 7 - all good so far.
Just got back from my 12 week scan (today at 13 weeks) and got my combi-test results ( Read more... ) -
Small people - numbers 5, 6 .......& 7.
My head's a bit all over the place at the moment. I'm pregnant again, pregnancy number 7 is on board which is of course always a cause for wild celebration. Tomorrow I'll be 5 weeks 'pregnant' (based on actual ovulation date, rather that the more usual but often wildly inaccurate 'date of last menstruation') and the sticks I can't seem to stop ( Read more... ) -
Somebody ate the last 10 months...
I only just realised how long its been since I last updated here. Too much to fill in for now, so yeah, stuff happened. A lot of stuff. Mostly OK, some not-so-OK, some good ( Read more... )