Pain control is one of the biggest concerns of any birth plan. This was most certainly true for me, when throughout my own pregnancy I had this huge fear of not being able to cope with the overwhelming pain of childbirth. My extreme period pain experience, […]
Now I’m well into my 38th week, it seems crazy to me that my pregnancy journey is full term and coming to an end. It doesn’t seem all that long ago I was sharing that breaking news, and through scans, symptoms and three trimesters, the […]
Since the day we learned we lost our baby, it seems all we see is babies. When you’ve gone from being a first time expectant parent to grieving the premature loss of your baby, you notice all the adverts with babies in, every single passing pushchair and […]
I never imagined that the first time I’d see my first ever baby she wouldn’t be alive. Laying in a dimmed room, in the illumination of the monitor, I saw my baby, like a little sleeping hippo, cocooned in the safety of my belly. But […]
They say you shouldn’t tell anyone for 3 months, so there goes that plan out of the window. I was barely past 6 weeks when my doctor performed the test confirming my status quo: I’m pregnant! I only came off the Pill back in March, deciding it […]
