Back pain, hair loss and spots

Pregnancy was good for my looks: my hair got thicker, my skin cleared up and I slimmed down with all my weight shifting onto my bump.  Even those first few post-pregnancy months weren't too bad.  I may have had dark circles under my eyes and baby sick on my shoulder ...

Welcome to the World Mr A

I noticed the first contraction at about a quarter to four in the morning. When it had passed, I got up, went to the bathroom (because when you're pregnant you never waste a chance) and stumbled back into bed. I dozed a little, but it was hard to ...

41 weeks, 3 days/39 weeks, 2 days*

Monday was time for the midwife to come around again.  I could have gotten used to these home visits much earlier on in my pregnancy.  You can sit there with your cuppa, you don't spend forever in an overheated hospital waiting room and you get to pee on a stick, ...

38 weeks, 3 days/36 weeks, 2 days*

Last time around I didn't nest.  Instead I made much point of saying how we had to clean and disinfect our ant-ridden studio before the baby arrived, yet never really got around to doing anything.  I'm undomesticated, you see.  I can just about manage to put my dirty laundry in ...

Possibly the last work-related post for a while

Friday was my last day at work before maternity leave.  I'm officially a free woman.  Or free until the full maternity pay runs out, at least. Thursday there was talk of snow.  The sort and amount that stops you from getting to work.  Of course some of us weren't so lucky ...