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Pregnancy

Fetal tachycardia

December 21, 2007

Matthew and I went out to the pub for a rare meal out. All I wanted to do was lie down – the pain I had been feeling for a couple of days on the right side of my stomach was bad enough to make me push my plate of chocolate cake and ice cream [...]

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Sixteen weeks pregnant

October 4, 2007

It’s been a crappy week but that’s nothing to do with being pregnant (for a change). Although I still feel slightly nauseous I am feeling so much better. I have energy to do things. I have a bit more of an appetite. I can go out and about, feeling good and looking better than I [...]

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Fifteen weeks pregnant: the second trimester rocks!

September 27, 2007

Less sickness, less nausea. More getting on with things, more enjoyment. ******** I saw the midwife yesterday which is always fun when I’ve got three small children on the loose in an office full of sharp needles and drugs. (Actually, littlest was confined in the stroller with a bag of snacks as a bribe but [...]

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Fourteen weeks pregnant: VBAC vs caesarean section

September 20, 2007

Today I have my first appointment at the hospital with the consultant (or, less reassuringly, A Member of her Team). I think I recognise her name as being the same consultant that delivered Ben so I will endeavour not to think about how I pooped when she told me to push (I mean how inconsiderate [...]

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Why I need to feel better: hyperemesis gravidarum (or severe morning sickness to you and me)

September 17, 2007

One of the hardest things about hyperemesis gravidarum or severe morning sickness is having to cook. I have survived on the most nutritionally deficient food I can think of because a) I can’t face cooking anything and b) I can’t eat anything I have cooked anyway. However the boys still need feeding and every day [...]

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Thirteen weeks pregnant: birth stories

September 13, 2007

I’m all ‘booked in’, the phrase used by the midwives here to get you into the system and under the care of the midwife team. An hour long visit by the midwife covered all my medical history and the pregnancies and births so far. ‘Harry was forceps, William was an emergency C-section and although Ben’s [...]

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Twelve weeks pregnant

September 8, 2007

It’s been a long, hard week. I have been very sick, unable to eat anything much except toast and am now feeling constantly dizzy – most likely because my blood pressure has dropped. This is not unusual for me as in previous pregnancies I was regularly down to 80/40, but it leaves me at risk [...]

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Eleven weeks pregnant

September 3, 2007

I’m lying on the sofa, nauseous, eating, eating, eating – even though the nausea tells me food is wrong – when I feel it. Small flutters, which if I were pregnant for the first time I would say were wind, but remembering Ben kicking from eleven weeks I know are the beginning of months of [...]

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