I’m stepping away from the usual today and joining in with Bloggers Unite’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month blogging event. In the UK, around 48,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. It has been estimated that in the US, 230, 480 women will be diagnosed in 2011. But we must remember that although it is more common in women, men can also be diagnosed with breast cancer. This is a cause very close to my heart, as 4/5 years ago my mother-in-law (MIL) was diagnosed with breast cancer. To say it was a huge shock was an understatement. I cannot remember …
PCOS – how it affects
Earlier this month I wrote a post on the facts of PCOS. This post will be about the affect it has had, or it has, on other people. My experience with PCOS has been quite short in a way, but looking back from during diagnosis and afterwards, I think in a way it has been a lengthy one too. Ever since I started my periods they have been horrendous – heavy, long, never knowing when they were going to start/end. At school I was put on tablets because they were so heavy, but they made me sick so I stopped …
16 weeks | Pregnancy diary
Yesterday was my 16 week mark! Gosh, that came around quick! Only 24 more weeks to go, I so want to meet our baby but of course I want him/her fully cooked first, and I still want to enjoy the rest of pregnancy. Bump is slowly expanding, I’m being quite vain and every time I pass a mirror I have to have a quick look to see if it’s grown any since the last time! Oops! We’re taking bump on his/her first “kind of” holiday a week today! “Kind of” because he/she will be there but not quite know it! …
World Prematurity Day – 17th November
So, I have only been blogging since the beginning of this year, but I have been a follower/reader of a very close friends blog since last year. This is where I came across a post about World Prematurity Day, which is on the 17th November this year. There is going to be a blogging & Twitter event led by March of Dimes, and I feel proud to be a part of it. All this involves is blogging and tweeting about preemies on the day. It would be fabulous if any of my followers/tweeters/bloggers would join in, the more, the better, …
Baby movements
So I’m pretty sure I felt baby G move on Tuesday (15+2)! It was after our midwife appointment, we were at the supermarket and I suddenly felt fluttering in my tummy, you know like when you have one of those twitches you can’t control, and like butterflies! It lasted about 2 or 3 minutes, but I wasn’t sure at first because I didn’t feel anything again until last night when I went to bed, it was exactly the same and lasted 1 or 2 minutes. I had to ask people on the forum as I wasn’t sure, I thought it …