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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…

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How to Survive the Toxic Gas Phase

At the very beginning of my first pregnancy, I began experiencing a pregnancy symptom that I never expected. I never fully classed it as a pregnancy symptom until it made…

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How to Survive Ravenous First Trimester Hunger

My Experience of First Trimester Hunger; I’m hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry! I have, very thankfully, not suffered with morning sickness with either of my pregnancies. There were some days where…

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    How to Survive Sex During Pregnancy

    October 7, 2019 / No Comments

    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…

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    So, baby number two is clearly hell bent on being upside down for the entirety of this pregnancy. It is completely and unmistakably the wrong way up! It’s big old lump of a head is lodged under my ribs and its legs are fanatically kicking me in the bladder. Neither of which are particularly comfortable! At every antenatal appointment the midwives calmly and confidently told me that baby will turn itself head down (cephalic) before too long. My gut instinct, however, told me in no uncertain terms that baby had other plans. It was determined to stay head up (breech) as clearly that is the right way up to be…

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