Mummy's Coffee Morning

I wanted to write about my labour experience for a number of reasons.  Firstly, because quite frankly it was amazing and I can't quite believe the experience, secondly because I want to squash the idea that you will hate your husband/partner during labour and that he will be utterly useless!  Thirdly, because whilst I was pregnant (and googling everything) I really struggled to come across positive and easy tales of birth. Every time I googled something about birth I would inevitably be faced with a horrendous ordeal which lasted 20 hours and ended in 50 stitches and an emergency Cesarean!  Not only that but pretty much everyone who shared their birthing story had some huge horrific event involved and seemed to relish telling these details before saying "I'm sure you will be fine though." (reassuring) and then usually "Just remember, don't panic." (I really wasn't.) Even all my baby books, magazines and email updates contained depressing s

Time to say bye bye bump and hello baby I am 39 weeks +6 days.  Things are starting to  happen  and I know that soon, one way or another our baby will be leaving the comfort of my womb and arriving in the big scary world. It's  time to bid farewell to the bump. It's  been nine months.  These past nine months have changed me both mentally and physically and more than any other nine months I've  ever experienced. This bump has become a part of me that I will actually miss, i've stretched clothes with this bump, gotten in peoples way with this bump, its made me wee more and made me waddle, i've knocked things over with this bump. This bump has made me awkward and emotional, it has given me equal amounts of joy and frustration. I have felt the little person in this bump squirm and wriggle and I have spent many hours watching the alien movements with my husband.  I've grown a person in this bump! A little person! For nine months I've protected a

Throughout my Pregnancy journey, I quickly discovered that people seem to lose that all important filter when talking to you, around you or about you. You know that filter that tells them they probably shouldn't say that thing out loud/nobody really wants to hear it?  As soon as you are a bit pregnant- like beyond the oohs and awwhs and how exciting- and people have got used to the idea, BANG their filter breaks whenever they are near you. You will notice people beginning to tell you all sorts of things (that you definitely didn't ask for or want to know) and people when say things to you about your body/ life as though its perfectly acceptable all of a sudden.  Now I am nearing the end of my Pregnancy I have come up with a bit of a list of the kind of things I mean. some of which, if you have the pleasure of hearing yourselves, will probably be really annoying by week 39. if not before!      The Downers There will definitely be people who upon hearing your