Birth stories – I love hearing all the different ways babies have come into this world. Every birth is different. My mum regularly reminds me that I kept her in pain for a 7 day long labour, and yet my sister arrived within minutes. My two boys were two very different birth experiences. They left…
Category: pregnancy
Mummy Est. 2014: Our Story
Lately it feels like a chapter of our family life has closed and we are preparing for a new one. This week J finished Tumble Tots, and Wednesday he finishes Nursery. It feels like that is the end of where I feel I am still part of his ‘academic life’. We spent time together having…
Maternal Mental Health: Anxiety and Becoming a Mum for the 2nd Time
Maternal Mental Health is an important issue. Don’t get me wrong, all mental health and well being is important but as a parent who has just undergone 9 months of hormones and growing a human and then the stress and pain of pushing said human out there is A LOT of emotions and thoughts to…
Preparing for labour and beyond second time around…
In just over 2 weeks I reach the due date for our second little boy. I have noticed a lot of differences between the two pregnancies as I reached third trimester. When I was nearing the end with J I was still working. We had the big things ready in the nursery room and other…
What shall I pack in our hospital bags? Mummy, Daddy, baby and big brother
I’m now 35 weeks pregnant. That means I have 5 weeks before baby is due. That sounds a lot but really it’s just an estimate. Baby could come tomorrow or in 7 weeks. The thing about labour is unless your being induced or planned c-section you rarely know when it’s going to be ‘the day’….
How love grew and changed during pregnancy and parenthood…
It sounds a total cliché but becoming a Mummy was the day I learnt what love really is. I love my family, I love my husband, I love my friends but the love for my child is just something else. It has an intensity to it that I never fully appreciated before. I felt love…
Announcing Pregnancy to our Autistic Son…
In August 2018 I got those two little lines that either fill a woman with excitement or fear…or in my case both. We had been trying for a sibling for J for almost 2 years and in 2017 I suffered a devastating miscarriage. So when I fell pregnant this time I was so happy to…
Mummy Est.2014 