Pregnancy
Random Preggie Musings – How to sift through the conflicting information!
One thing you learn pretty early on in your pregnancy is there is SOOO much conflicting information out there. It can really be quite overwhelming what information to consider and what to disregard. Literally every question you have has differing opinions so what do you do? I’m one of those people that believes anything worth…
Read More >>Random Preggie Musings – Don’t touch me stranger!
Being pregnant is a gorgeous, memorable, special time of your life … It’s something to really embrace. And if you’re a lucky mum, it’s a really positive and relatively pain free experience. I can’t say I have too much to complain about so far, I didn’t have much nausea at all, aside from some pain…
Read More >>Random Preggie Musings – Oh those food cravings!
The hormones of pregnancy are a fascinating thing honestly – I mean if growing a human inside you isn’t a mind f%$^ enough … the various changes you go through certainly are. And one of those changes is the change in your food tastes. This has been a fascinating experience for me for sure. Vinny…
Read More >>Random Preggie Musings – Oh my gosh, what? Twins?!
Vinny and I were so thrilled when we pee’d on that stick and got that big fat positive sign we shared the news immediately with our families and close friends who knew we had been trying. We of course did the 2 sets of blood tests to confirm the pregnancy checking both HCG and Progesterone…
Read More >>Random Preggie Musings – What’s with the weight gain?
I think we all have these fantasies before we fall pregnant of being this perfect modern mommy … you know the fantasy, right? Slim, healthy, cute little bump, no additional weight gain … in your dreams you hear people saying, “You would never know she’s pregnant from behind” or “Look at that cute little bump,…
Read More >>Random Preggie Musings – Hot, hot, HOT!!!
I’m a summer baby – thanks to my French Mauritian blood – my body believes it was meant to live the island lifestyle somewhere. My skin is never better than when it’s sun kissed. I rarely burn (when I’m not pregnant!) and I go instantly brown. I hate the cold and I hate winter ……
Read More >>Random Preggie Musings – 9 months or 10 months?!?!
So being pregnant for the first time is interesting. There are all these things you discover … some of which you expected and knew and some which are total surprises. It makes for some pretty funny discoveries. The first of these is the 9 month thing – did you know a pregnancy is not actually…
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