I woke up with an upset belly this morning. I thought I might have been pregnant picked up a bug when my digestive system was acting a bit strange a week or so ago, but then my period started so I blamed it on the prostaglandins… until this morning when the pain and discomfort came back […]
In a couple of days we’re going to the island of Jersey, in the English Channel for a bit of a holiday. Ever since we started working on having a family, I’ve also been working on my family tree. I think the connection is fairly obvious. My Grandmother’s grandmother emigrated to New Zealand from
After I lost Poppy, I think I also lost my self a little bit. I took only two days off work, during which I mainly slept, then threw myself back into activity. I said I was worried about getting bored, but maybe I was just doing anything I could to avoid acknowledging the enormity of
I had a sweet potato and thought a red-lentil curry was in order for dinner, but I make variations on that dish all the time and kind of wanted something different. As I was surfing around Mr Google, looking for a twist, I came across a blog post for an Ethiopian sweet potato and red
My scan after I lost Pipkin showed that there was retained tissue. The doctor advised I give it a few days to see if it would pass by itself and scheduled a scan for the following week. She said if there was still tissue then I’d need to have surgery to remove it. I’ve
A long, long time ago, Mr Duncan and I agreed we would move to Australia. We just needed to wait until his start-up company started doing well (we thought three years was reasonable), and he felt that it could continue to prosper without his daily supervision. Three years later I was climbing the walls in
Apologies if its TMI but here we go again… I’m irritable and my breasts look funny. It must be PMS. Or maybe I’m irritable because I’m so damned warm? I must be pregnant. I am peeing all the time… but maybe that’s because I’m drinking so much water. I’m drinking so much
We received kiwifruit in our veg box this week, which reminded me of
We were watching some recorded episodes of ‘Celebrity’ Masterchef last night and contestant Shappi Khorsandi cooked an Iranian chicken leg recipe for the guest judges. She didn’t get great reviews for it, but my phantom early pregnancy symptoms continue and I immediately wanted to eat chicken leg. Given the existence of something like couvade syndrome, I
I asked Mr Duncan to send me the picture of the salad I made last night and he sent me three pics… the one I requested and two meals I had forgotten I even made! A few weeks back I went in to Mr Duncan’s office to review a presentation being given by one of