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Pregnancy is an amazing time. You’re growing a tiny human, your body is going through so many changes and your whole life is about to be turned upside down. One thing you’re sure to care about is how to have a healthy pregnancy and do the best for yourself and your baby during this time.
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It’s been eight years since I was last pregnant and yet I still think back to that time fondly, miss it and remember all the different emotions that came with growing a baby. I loved being pregnant but even so, there are some things that I would do differently if we ever had another baby.
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It feels like yesterday that I was pregnant with Little Man. The years fly by but pregnancy is something that you always remember. From seeing those lines on the test through to the first twinges of labour. I had a pretty textbook pregnancy with both children. But, I realise now that there were a lot of common pregnancy health issues that I really didn’t know much about.
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I loved pregnancy with both LP and Little Man but, it was a time when I was given so much advice by different people as well as reading so much online. It was such an exciting time but was often one of confusion, with so much conflicting advice!
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I’m lucky that I have never had any need to really know about my own fertility or monitor it in any way but I know I am in the minority and many people find fertility tracking gives them reassurance when they’re trying to conceive.
When LP was born I didn’t have any proper photos from my pregnancy to look back on, just ones taken on days out or every few weeks to update the world on bump’s progress. But with Little Man a wonderful photographer friend of mine took some photos of me at the end of the pregnancy.
Disclosure: We were invited on this day out for the purpose of this post however all opinions are my own.
On Sunday I went to The Baby Show with two lovely friends who are expecting their first baby. I left the kids at home with Daddy and drove us to ExCel for the show – which was a lot better than I’d expected, taking us 1.5hrs ish and only costing £15 for the day to park, so much cheaper and easier than the train and so easy to take all our shopping back with us!
This time 2 years ago I was 2 weeks away from giving birth. I’d been on maternity leave for over a month by this point and was getting bored of my own company!
The midwives had told me all the way through pregnancy that Baby can come any time after 37 weeks, so I’d focused on 37 weeks, and when that milestone came and went, and I was still massively pregnant at 38 weeks I was feeling pretty fed up!
This is a huge milestone. As of tomorrow I am 37 weeks pregnant. This means that baby is ‘term’ as far as the midwives are concerned and I can have another homebirth! Everything for the homebirth got delivered on Thursday and I have been holding my breath since that Baby didn’t make an early appearance.
I have now been away from work for 2 weeks and feel like I haven’t had a moment to relax – That will come though, but for now I am on a mission!
I really don’t think women ‘nest’ as such in pregnancy, I think they just realise how little time they will have after the Baby comes and how many things they had been putting off doing that will get put off even longer if they don’t do them now, right now, in the last few months/weeks of pregnancy.