Archive for April, 2009

Here’s The Thing…

30,000+ people die *every* year from flu. Less than 200 have died from Swine Flu. So, why all the panic?

April 29, 2009   Posted in: daily  4 Comments

Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 32 Weeks

Dear Baby I’m afraid Mummy is still not enjoying the third trimester.  She exhausted, achy, bloated, nauseaus and cries at everything. But she loves feeling you move about and, your newest trick, hiccuping! She has less than 3 weeks until she’s on leave and then she can start giving into this nesting urge she’s having! [...]

April 28, 2009   Posted in: Baby, Letters, daily  No Comments

This Is Why Women Went into Confinement…

Got up this morning.  Showered.  Threw up for many many minutes.  Cried. Stayed home from work.  Slept 5 more hours. Thank God only 3 weeks to go.

April 27, 2009   Posted in: Pregnancy, daily  One Comment

I Am Rather Frustrated

I want to put the baby into baby sleeping bags, as opposed to sheets and blankets.  Its suppose to be more comfy for him/her and more peace of mind for me, in terms of SID and such. Only the differences in price between them is mind boggling! TK Maxx – £9.99.  But they only have [...]

April 25, 2009   Posted in: Baby, daily  No Comments

Three More Weeks of Work

and then I’m on leave.  I can.not.wait. Not because I don’t like my job.  I do like my job. But because I am just exhausted. I know I will be even more exhausted once Little One arrives.  But I won’t have to be at work, interacting on some intelligent level with other people.  I can [...]

April 23, 2009   Posted in: Baby, Pregnancy, daily  One Comment

I Remember

my brother telling me, when he saw the movie Monsters, Inc, that he had a hard time watching it because the little girl in the movie was too close in age with his daughter, and when she was scared in the movie, he felt so worried for her.  And I didn’t get it. Now I [...]

April 22, 2009   Posted in: Baby, daily  No Comments

Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 31 Weeks

Dear Baby Well, Mummy is deep into the 3rd trimester now and is very very tired, very very achy and still feeling very sad. Thinking about you, and feeling you move, is making her feel better all the time, though. I got to see you today at my Antenatal appointment.  Very blurry, but I could [...]

April 21, 2009   Posted in: Baby, Letters, daily  No Comments

Wow, I Did Lots Today!

Haircut at 9. Boots the Chemist, Waterstone’s Books, Marks and Spencer’s for food, Sawyers for other food, Smithfield Market for a poke around, Debenhem’s for frying pan and sheets, Tesco for yet more food.  And then home. I was so tired, I took a 3 hour nap this afternoon and am nearly ready for bed [...]

April 18, 2009   Posted in: Family, daily  No Comments

On Speaking The Language

I was IMing with my mum the other night and she asked me if I used UK spellings by habit or because I knew I had to.  I told her that at this point? Its habit. So its mum. And cheque. Not mom.  And check. I also say tomahto, not tomayto. And cheers rather than [...]

April 16, 2009   Posted in: Ex-Pat, daily  2 Comments

I Think The Hardest Part of Being So Big

here in my 3rd Trimester is not the aches or the tiredness, those are normal for me. Its losing my sense of balance. I spent 20 years of my life, off and on, training for ballet.  Granted, that was about 20 years ago, but I never really lost my sense of my own balance.  Until [...]

April 15, 2009   Posted in: Pregnancy, bump picture, daily  3 Comments