Just The One Journal

Despite what you think NO-ONE moves out of your way, they actually barge their bags and person into you and push themselves first all the time. A priest, an actual priest, dog-collar and all, pushed past me on the street the other day. Need I say more. Women are the worst for not moving - there was 1 seat free on the tube, no-one else on the platform, she clocked I was pregnant and actually pushed herself on first and sat down. Kindly a man did give his seat for me opposite her so I gave her death stares for the whole journey. I don't know why women are the worst but I feel that they just look at me and go well it was your choice to be pregnant or they have never been pregnant and don't understand. Where are the discounts? Surely its logical to think that as we are far more exhausted and can't walk half as far as usual that they would give you a discounted rate on buses and tubes. I walk everywhere mainly to save money and I have been unable to walk down the street wit...

So we had a huge hassle with the buggy. Decided on a Silvercross because it looked really nice, sturdy and we will mainly be walking or taking taxis living in central london so we wanted something with big wheels and easy to move.  We ordered through John Lewis online for a Graphite colour frame and camel coloured hood, received the hood quickly but they said the frame could take up to 8 weeks delivery! waited 3 weeks, started to panic and thought baby might be coming soon and I still hadn't received any confirmation of when the frame would arrive. Popped into Peter Jones in Chelsea and they said that becuase Silvercross is actually made in China(so much for the famous 'British' brand) they won't be manufacturing it till early May and then a seperate department would inform me when they would deliver adding another week!! Baby is due on May 03rd so that went down well with me... So instead I cancelled and ordered the Chrome frame which took 3 days to arrive. I don...

Yesterday we went for our 38 weeks midwife check up and happy to say little baby is in a good position, has grown masses and is now measuring correctly. Up to this point he was 2 weeks behind in weight but I knew I was eating tons more recently and so exhausted that he must have been growing. So at 38 weeks I am feeling: exhausted - having a 2 hour nap around 5pm makes me feel alot better.  waking up early 7am and once or twice in the night for the loo, but its not annoying, its nice to recognise my body is getting ready for when the baby is going to arrive Achy legs- just a small walk will make my legs feel like lead  My skin and nails are looking great. Feeling lots of movement on my right side (baby's bum) and his legs and feet have been making me feel a bruising at the top of my bump which is quite uncomfortable. Don't know if they are Braxton Hicks or not but definately starting to feel pains. Have put alot of weight on.. these Gap trackies have been my saviour ...

So I am now 37 weeks pregnant. I went to pregnancy yoga on wednesday and although my bump is still quite small, I felt like an old timer looking at all the younger ones with their 22week bumps. Its also really weird not to see the usual faces and know that they are now mothers with their little babies!!! In the past few days I have noticed a few more period type pains, sharp pushing down, pressure at the top of my left leg/low left side of pelvis and the need to have a long nap in the evening before bed as well as feeling really really hot and out of breath. I really think the baby might be early as the midwife said he was already really low down so I am trying to keep the house tidy in preperation. Ive been eating alot of bread like I did in the 1st trimester and not being very good at eating vegetables and having too many biscuits... Every night I go to bed thinking this could be the night, and that that was the last day of being just the 2 of us and its really such an intense ...

Yoga has helped so much with pregnancy and I couldn't recommend it enough. Beginning at 16 weeks I felt so underconfidant going in to class with lots of women with huge bumps and mine being almost unrecognisable. At first it felt nothing like normal yoga classes, just gentle stretches, no downward dogs or salutations,and it honestly it felt really pointless. So I stepped up going during the 2nd trimester and was going 3-4 times a week and slowly I noticed different things: It is really nice to see other bump sizes and how many weeks women are the chat sessions before with questions being answered is really helpful, its nice to hear other people's aches and pains and its good to know how to combat them or it just makes you feel good as you might not have any of them! my back ache went and any aches soon go after a yoga session you pick up loads of breathing tips to help with labour and different ways to hold your baby  learning about your pelvis and anatomy to better un...

I forgot to post this weeks ago so here it is! Pregnancy Week 30 So far this pregnancy has been a learning curve. I have learnt to be patient with myself and my body, learning to slow down, that I can't do lots at once, can't walk long distances without really tiring myself out for days and eating little and often. We went to a Hypnobirthing workshop on Sunday but after a full day, we came home feeling very disappointed with it, we learnt breathing techniques like long slow breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth, and visualisations like blowing out a candle in the distance with a long slow breath when in labor. It was most useful to see other partners reactions and hear their thoughts on their partners being pregnant. This links me to The Calm Birth School thecalmbirthschool.com which so far has been the most helpful to me with pregnancy. I found them by chance on Instagram, check out their website and you can sign up for 3 FREE videos which were really he...