With my first pregnancy I was a bit anxious because it was all a new experience. But I was innocent enough to believe things would probably be fine, until it all went downhill at ten weeks. With my second pregnancy I was hyper-vigilant. I worried and over-analysed every symptom until we passed 14 weeks […]
I went to buy baby clothes for Pickle the other day. I found it totally overwhelming. Even outside the pink/blue themes there was lots of choice and despite my careful research, once in the store I had no idea about quality or price or anything. I came home with just a couple of onesies and
I invited friends to dinner on Thursday night. Our first dinner guests – actually our first guests – since moving in six weeks ago. Unbeknownst to me, my invitation coincided with the local power company’s plan to replace all the electricity meters in the neighbourhood. Of course it did. ‘It will take two hours,
While I consider this pregnancy to have been fairly ‘easy’ on me so far (not that I have anything to compare it to), I have been experiencing hip pain and heartburn at night. Looking at the long and intimidating list of items to purchase in preparation for your new arrival I noted one said ‘nursing pillow’ and wondered
I’ve never had a very sweet tooth. While I like the odd chunk of dark chocolate or creamy desert (mmm custard), you won’t find me salivating over rich cakes or sugary treats. I had a milkshake the other day that was too sweet for me to drink. Even a handful of dried
Our furniture finally arrived two weeks ago. I heard the beeps backing up the driveway and was surprised to see they had an enormous truck carting a entire container on the back! In London, they had just loaded our stuff into a medium-sized lorry. We didn’t even have half a container’s worth,