Pregnancy and Pandemic
My wife is 33 weeks pregnant. In the middle of a pandemic. We really can’t do things normally, or easily, I guess. It’s a bit weird expecting a baby in the middle of a pandemic. Our mental health has taken...
Tagged: pregnancy
Miscarriage And The Twelve Week Wait
Written November 2019 The two-week wait is tough but for some reason, I am finding the first trimester a little more difficult this time around. Or maybe I’m just remembering it a little differently. I don’t remember being this anxious...
If At First, You Don’t Succeed, Scan, Scan, Scan Again.
If you’ve followed us online you’ll know that Bethend is pregnant. Much like with Snappy, everyone knew about this. More so than last time actually. There has been a degree of openness that I will come back to. Last week...
Five Things I Wish I’d Known About The Birth Before Hand
The birth of my son was a little expectedly unexpected. I’ve never seen anyone give birth before – seeing it on television does not count – and there are a few things I expected and a few things I didn’t....
I Want To Be A Mum Just Not Pregnant
I was asked by a friend of ours who’s wife not long had her second child if I was feeling broody. I’ve spoken about it before, when we first started this whole thing and yes I was broody – though...
Birth Plan, Birthing Suite But No Baby…Yet.
I was going go write about how this week we had our midwife come over and do our birth plan and how it was all a bit hilarious because we have cats and very useful because she is lovely. I...
Four Weeks Left (Maybe)
Today we had another scan – our fifth. I think we’ve had so many for various reasons – Bethend has a higher bmi than normal (she’s short and very strong), she has low amniotic fluid and it’s her first pregnancy....
Week 35 – Midwives, Anaesthetists and Pokemon
It’s Week 35 and I delayed this week’s post so I could write about our appointments which we had today instead of on a Thursday as usual. This was mostly because it was easier for me to take the Friday...
