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I’m Stacey, a bookworm (or should that be dragon?!) from a quaint hamlet on the outskirts of Lincolnshire. In my late 30s, I’m a devoted mum to two wonderful boys who are both autistic—a unique aspect that makes them different, not less. I also share my home with my husband and Barney, my lovable Frenchie x Beagle.

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Gender prediction fun (take 2)

Whilst pregnant with little man, I wrote this post for a bit of gender prediction fun. This was right before our anomaly scan when we decided to find out the gender, but as you know we haven’t this time. I thought I may as well have a go at it again! With little man’s predictions, it came out as 4 saying girl and 4 saying boy, so it was an equal ratio. Chinese Gender Chart This is a chart on which you cross reference two things to determine the gender of your baby. For this chart though you must determine your Chinese age at …

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Little man's first day at nursery

As little man is not yet even 2, he won’t get his free nursery funding until next year – despite this, hubby & I have recently been debating whether to place him anyway and obviously pay for it. After umm-ing and ahh-ing over various factors, we decided we would go for it (though I kept wondering if we were doing the right thing). There is a perfect little private nursery just around the corner from us which we decided was the one – we signed him up for just one day a week (8 hours). When I went in to …

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Getting organised for the arrival of number two

In the last couple of weeks in my diaries, I have written about how unorganised I feel with this pregnancy. By this stage with little man I was pretty much ready to go. Obviously this time with a toddler to look after too, I haven’t had as much time or energy but I thought it was about time we got something done.  I think one of the most important things (if not at the top of the list) was deciding on names. As we don’t know what we are having this time, we have had to come up with boys …

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The ‘Berry’ Pregnancy Diaries – week 34

Wednesday 15th January – 34w Feeling quite worried at how close it’s getting now… Really need to get my bum in gear a bit more! Thursday 16th January – 34w 1d Now it’s getting nearer to the end, I’m managing to take more bump photos. Here is the latest one. I think I was looking big, but I think I look small in this one – maybe baby had moved position. Though I feel huge! Friday 17th January – 34w 2d I had my 34 week appointment today. It was also the time to write up my birth ‘plan’. With …