Second Trimester
Find all of the survival guides you will need to survive and thrive in the second trimester of pregnancy from the Mother of All Survival Guides!
How to Survive Pregnancy Weight Gain
All you need to know about pregnancy weight gain… So, I weighed myself yesterday. I shouldn’t have. We all know that pregnancy is a time in your life when you are going to put on weight, a fairly substantial amount of weight, in quite a short time, but that still never prepares you for when you do step on those scales. Most of us will spend our adult lives fluctuating in weight in and around a 7-14lb ‘zone’. The ‘skinny’ to ‘fat’ zone! I have lived my adult life somewhere in between my ‘skinny’ weight of 8st 12 and my ‘un-skinny weight’ 9st 9lb. I can live with, but not…
How to Survive Eczema During Pregnancy
Surviving the ‘Itchy Nipple’ Phase Even before I had any idea that I was pregnant, my eczema had clued onto it. It was like the most highly sensitive, early pregnancy test. Thinking back on it, if I had understood the correlation I could have saved money on pregnancy tests. Additionally, I could have known at least 2 weeks before they would give me a result! If I could bottle it and sell its magical pregnancy indicating qualities (minus that actual eczema), I could give Clear Blue a good run for their money! Before my first pregnancy, I hadn’t had any eczema flare ups since childhood, then, once I was knocked…
When will I feel baby move?
How to Survive the Wait for the Butterflies! I am currently at 22 weeks pregnant and for the last couple of weeks I have been very aware of baby’s movements. This is entirely due to the fact that it has been incessantly kicking me in the bladder. Trying to explain what this feels like is no easy task. It mostly feels like I get kicked and then simultaneously have an overwhelming urge to go for a wee. A temporary urge. It feels oddly like I am being kicked in a tube that connects my bladder to my urethra; it’s weird! My twenty-week scan last weekend confirmed that baby is indeed…
How to Survive ‘The’ Comments During Pregnancy
Mind your bump! As part of one (of my many) job roles, I have to deal with people, a lot of people. A lot of people that I have to be nice to despite their, sometimes, rather unpleasant natures. Mostly I have to endure people complaining about the food they have received, or the service they have received or any other number of (mostly unfounded!) complaints that one has to deal with when working in the service industry. These types of comments and complaints I can deal with by solving a problem or shaking off at the end of the day. Today I encountered the worst comments I have ever…
How to Survive Sex During Pregnancy
Gettin’ jiggly with it! Strange how conceiving a baby, which usually relies on some sort of sex, can wreak havoc on your sex life for the next nine months. One shag creates the problem for all future shags! Unfortunately for The Husband, baby number two took no time at all to conceive. A couple of shags was all it took. Compared to Lil’Mem took a full three years to appear in conception! ‘Wish I’d of got a bit longer at the trying phase’ he says. ‘Mate, poor you!’ say other blokes. Apparently in ‘man world’ the ‘trying’ bit is in fact the best bit of pregnancy! To be fair, thinking…
