Getting ready for a new baby can seem like a really daunting prospect if you are a first time parent. You have nine months stretching ahead of you, and in terms of a pregnancy those months can seem long, and the end game is far away. When it comes to buying everything you need though, those […]
Category: Pregnancy
It’s not morning sickness!
As I spoke about in my post A Problematic Pregnancy I had Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Hyperemesis Gravidarum is a condition that causes severe nausea and extreme vomiting to the point of weight loss in pregnant women. It is not morning sickness, it’s not like the movies where the gorgeous main character runs to the bathroom to throw up […]
My birth story
Wednesday 11th January 2017 We went to my 38 week appointment, when we were finally seen (Irish public healthcare system is pretty slow) the doctor could see that I was struggling, my stomach muscles had separated, I wasn’t sleeping, the baby was measuring 2 weeks ahead and I was fed up. So when I asked […]
A problematic pregnancy
Finding Out I hadn’t been feeling well, I thought I had a kidney infection so after putting it off and eventually leaving work because I was sick I finally made myself a doctors appointment. I had to give him a urine sample, as you do for kidney infections, and about 30 seconds later he […]