Category: General Pregnancy

These are my two favourite photos from last week 🙂

IT’S A GIRL!! I’m SO excited. I was a teeny bit disappointed that a message hadn’t been passed on for me to bring a blank DVD … they only had CDs, so I wasn’t able to get a 4D moving image … but the experience as it was was just amazing. The Doctor was Oscar […]

courtesy of http://www.welcomebabyhome.com/ During labor the maternal temperature is about 99.0°F. The temperature rises to about 99.3°F with an epidural or spinal anesthetic. Baby’s condition at birth mirrors the mother’s. If she has a hard time with labor so will he. If she is wide awake the baby will be too. The first breaths of […]

My blood pressure was 112/60 when I first check it in the very early stages of pregnancy. We bought a monitor last week, and it was 118/64 when I took the reading. On Sunday, I suddenly felt really really tired, and lay down for what felt like an unconscious 4-hour nap … at 9am!! I […]

I had a dream last night that baby started moving. It was VERY strange to feel, and almost reminded me of when my childhood pet ginuea pig was pregnant! I used to put my hands around her stomach and feel the babies move. Most memorable, perhaps, was that I could clearly feel the spine and […]

I think most women feel a bit bloaty, or maybe I should say ‘puffy’ around the abdomen, in the week before they are due to menstruate … of course this time, there’s been no relief for me!!

Baby is working hard this week. It will triple in size. Its heart should start beating this week. Initial circulation starts off in the mesoderm, yolk sac and the linning of the placenta. By the middle of this week the aorta will have started to form in the baby’s heart. Another major development this week […]

I’ve felt somewhat disheartened over the past few days. It seems that most people to whom I mention the concept of a home birth without an attending physician are nothing short of horrified!!

It’s been a really odd couple of weeks. I’ve had spasmodic cramps, some light-headedness, very minor and fleeting nausea, and if I’ve allowed myself to relax, I’ve been out like a light! As long as I’ve been on the go, the fatigue hasn’t really set in, but if I stop, that’s the end! Overall, I’ve […]

I received a message this morning from a friend who had read this blog, and pointed out that I seemed so sure that I would get pregnant. She asked how I knew, when some couples would struggle and struggle to conceive. I wrote a fairly lengthy reply, and felt it would be useful to post […]