As They Did An Internal, My Baby’s Heartbeat Stopped

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  I had a brilliant pregnancy with my little girl Roxy now 2 years old, until I hit 29 weeks. I went to my midwife for my routine check and I had raised blood pressure and I had protein in my urine. I was sent to to hospital for monitoring and had to keep going regularly. [...]

20 Weeks Pregnant; I was given the all clear to cancer

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      Ok where to start, my little girl has just turned 2. She is my first and only child. However there was a time in my pregnancy that I thought that she would never arrive and I would never be able to have any more children. It all started at my dating scan [...]

She had a brain tumour and it was big and it was angry

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This post is an anonymous guest post*   2011 was a strange year   Lots of not very nice things happened to close friends and to us too.   However my friend Louise was dealt the worst of all, her attitude and strength has made everything else seem so very unimportant.   Back in June, we [...]

‎101 Things you didn’t expect/weren’t told would happen during pregnancy

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‎         101 Things You Didn’t Expect/Weren’t Told Would Happen During Pregnancy. Being sick anywhere Loss of bladder control Fainting 24/7 Piles Thrush Random spontaneous leaking boobs. Your bladder shrinking to the size of a pea Hair falling out The hairy belly The amount of needles that get jabbed with Crave the [...]

C-sections now available to all pregnant women

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I have heard recently in the news that c-sections have now become available to all pregnant women weather or not its for medical reasons such as breech babies, emergency or life threatening to mum and baby. Whilst I understand some women may see that a c-section would be the easier option no pushing, you in [...]

Pre-eclampsia do you know the warning signs?

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I was 37 weeks pregnant with my 2nd successful pregnancy (after 4 miscarriages in 4years), and once again I was admitted to hospital following a routine midwife check up. Once again I was not happy with the check up my midwife did, and once again the hospital were waiting for me to pee so they [...]

A mum gives birth at home: Baby is grey

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It was 2 days before my due date,  it all started as I went for my final antenatal check up.  I  started having the odd twinges and really had high blood pressure. They decided to take me to the ward untill my blood pressure came down,  by the evening it had so they sent me [...]

What happens when we get no sleep?

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We all know what the word sleep means right? We all know how it feels, or for those mums with a child who refuses to sleep it is something they very much crave for.   Why do we sleep? Nobody knows why we sleep. Some believe that sleep allows the body time to rest and [...]