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Week 39: The Longest Pre-Labour Ever!
As I write this I am having irregular contractions every three-six minutes apart. I'm not getting too excited though — I've had similar symptoms almost every night for the past week. But then they stop and I head to bed, wondering if I'm going to be woken up by a sudden gush of waters at 3am. To say that such a long pre-labour is frustrating i...
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Week 38: Ready to Pop
The final last weeks of pregnancy drag by, hour by tedious hour, until you think the baby is never going to come and it's time to attempt a home caesarean. Unlike those women whose waters break spontaneously and kicktstart a fast labour, my body likes to tease me with signs of pre-labour for weeks and weeks: strong braxton hicks 'practice' contr...
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Week 37: The best laid plans…
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I was willing the baby to come early and today I'm begging for another week. Why? After all my worrying it's happened - my husband has been diagnosed with swine flu. We don't know if he actually has the dreaded pig lurgy or regular influenza, but he has the symptoms and it was enough for the doctor to...
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Week 36: Get Packing
In the last week I've been told twice that I look like I'm having twins. If it's not twins, it feels like a giant alien creature with ten arms that poke me all night long. Her feet are already in my ribs, I'm not sure that there is three more weeks of growing space in there. I may be on maternity leave, but have so far managed to do very little...
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Week 35: Moving On
Wow, what a week. In the last seven days I've bought a house, panicked about swine flu, finished up in the office and discovered that baby is 2/5 engaged and preparing for arrival. I feel like my head is about to fall off from all the spinning. While I'm very excited that the baby is doing everything she is supposed to do and moving further down...
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Week 34: Are We There Yet?
Take a look at these very pregnant celebrities and guess what they're thinking. I'll give you a hint: "Get this baby out of here!" By thirty-five weeks the sexy second trimester is well and truly over and it's a downhill race to the birthing suite. My back is stuffed, my ankles are starting to puff (fortunately not as badly as las...
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Week 33: 1+1 = Scared
Last week I had the most perfect morning with my son, the kind of morning you can only have with one child. I slept in a little, then worked in my pyjamas for a while before taking Finn down to the park. The sun was shining, the playground was bully-free and while there I ran into another mother I knew from Finn's music class. We had a chat w...
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Week 32: Going Green
As I mentioned way back in one of my first posts, I'm trying to make an effort to go green with this baby. I'm not talking Wondersuit colours, but cloth nappies, exclusive breastfeeding (if we can manage it) second-hand clothes and toys etc. I'm far from a hippy, but the facts on disposable nappies make me pretty ill. Australians use 800 million...
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