pregnancy

Fourteen weeks pregnant: VBAC vs caesarean section

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

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

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

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

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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Nine weeks pregnant

So I got around to working it out and I’m nine weeks pregnant. With my first pregnancy I knew how many weeks, days, probably even minutes I was pregnant but this time I’m lucky if I can remember to take all the children with me when we go out somewhere. At nine weeks, I’m visibly [...]

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