Pregnancy Update

My baby now weighs around 2 1/2 pounds and is just over 15 inches long from his head to heel. At this stage his head is growing bigger to make room for his developing brain and to meet his increasing nutritional demands, mums-to-be need plenty of protein, vitamins C, folic acid, and iron because the…

At 28 week, the baby is doing lots of blinking because they’re now responding to light and dark. Not only that but they are going through a lot of physical developments. Bone marrow is now a construction site for blood cells, while their adrenal glands are actually producing androgen and estrogen. The latter means that…

To be honest, I am not too sure when the third trimester starts, some people say from 25 weeks right up to 28 weeks but I really don’t know. I just assume that it’s around the 27 week mark as that’s a third of the way into my pregnancy.  Entering the third trimester feels like…

Today I am 26 weeks pregnant. The past few month have flown by and I’m not under any illusion about how the rest will fair out. I know that after this stage, the rest of the pregnancy will drag. Whilst my little boy is inside, growing, I am out here getting impatient and wanting to…

You know what I am sick of? People assuming that I am gutted about my stretchmarks, People thinking that it’s okay to point them out and blame my children for ruining my body. People who seem to put others down for having them or love pointing out that they had 5 kids and never got…

Braxton Hicks are horrendous to have. Imagine having severe labour pains that constantly come and go but don’t result in you having a baby. Last week was my first experience of them in this pregnancy and I briefly wrote about it last week in my 23 week update and so I thought I’d talk about them…

This week has been a bit up and down. All of us have been ill and so, at the beginning of the week, we couldn’t really get much done. Being ill whilst pregnant is not great at all, and with the already groggy feeling of pregnancy coming together with the bug, it made me feel…