I spent most of my life skipping breakfast. I’m not much of a morning person, and dragging myself out of bed, into the shower, and out the door in time for work was always a challenge. When I do eat immediately after waking, I often feel weighed down, like there’s a lump of stone in […]
Given my normal eating style is very close to the Weston Price dietary guidelines anyway, last time I was pregnant I looked into the Weston Price Diet for Pregnant and Nursing Mothers and it made sense to me. Because of my age I’m at higher risk for pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes, placenta praevia, pre-eclampsia
Bedtime reading When I became pregnant the first time, Mr Duncan and I started a new practice in which he reads aloud to me in bed a couple of nights a week before we go to sleep. Mr Duncan can be a bit of a gadget addict and this was my way of trying to
Turkish memories This was my favourite dish when I was waitressing at a restaurant in Istanbul. I did not intend to waitress while I was living in Istanbul. It just kind of came to me. I used to go to a particular restaurant around the corner from my room, in the evenings, to study
So. For once my two week wait symptoms were not actually PMS. I got a positive result on my home pregnancy test today. Identical symptoms to the past three cycles. Completely opposite results. Bizarre. Part of me feels – whew, I get another chance. Part of me feels – oh no, here we go again.
Its been less than six months, but I don’t remember finding out I was pregnant with Pipkin. My Fertility Friend App shows I had a positive pregnancy test at only 12 DPO, which is quite early for testing. I prefer to wait until my period is *late* late, in order to avoid the excitement/disappointment that
Normally I avoid the Daily Mail with its fixation on scandal, celebrity “baby bumps” (Is she?/Isnt she?) and doom and gloom for 40+ fertility. It just bums me out. I’m sure there didn’t used to be such a
When we found out we were pregnant, I was working from home, which minimised stress and enabled me to take catnaps at lunchtime (I was mega tired). The trade-off was a two night trip to attend meetings in Paris every few weeks. Having never been pregnant before I was a bit nervous about it all.
We’d been working on getting pregnant for about 18 months… the first year mostly casually, the final six months with increasing concern. The usual run of tests showed no issues with either myself or Mr Duncan andit was implied it must be a problem due to my age. I was 40 by the time we
I love this article from the Daily Mail about a woman who had four children naturally in her 40s after 20 unsuccessful years of TTC. While I am well aware of all the depressing statistics regarding age and fertility, I remind myself that I’ve achieved two pregnancies in the past year and a positive state