Wednesday 11th December – 29w Backache seems to have really kicked in now. I walked to & from the supermarket with little man in his pushchair, 10 minutes each way, and by the time I got home I could barely move. Again, it was never like this with little man. Not a lot I can do about it though other than get a support or something! Friday 13th December – 29w 2d Pregnancy dream time, two of them last night. The first one, all of the Fast & Furious movies were banned after Paul Walker’s death, but hubby was an …
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Review – Spatone iron supplement
If you are a regular reader of my pregnancy diaries you will know that I suffer from low iron levels and have to take iron tablets for the remainder of my pregnancy (and most likely a while afterwards, if my experience after little man arrived is anything to go by). In turn this also makes me feel ill, with symptoms such as headaches and dizziness. Now like many people I hate taking tablets, but had been recommended to try a certain liquid iron supplement by a few friends. So when the lovely people at Nelsons invited me to try Spatone, …
The ‘Berry’ Pregnancy Diaries – week 17
Wednesday 18th September – 17w Even though little man wasn’t here this morning, I still woke before 7am and couldn’t get back to sleep! I was planning a relaxed morning but by 8.10am I’d managed to take the rubbish out, was the dishes, put a laundry load on, and hoover right through! I did sit down after that but I ended up doing blogging things. So I am still as tired as usual tonight even though I’ve only been looking after little man half the day. Thursday 19th September – 17w 1d Have been busy packing for our holiday today …
Routine midwife visit (update)
Yesterday was our 15/16 week routine midwife visit. Just went through the norms, my blood results from booking in came back fine for everything, then she took more blood for the Down’s screening, as the sonographer couldn’t get a measurement at our scan! I will get the results from that through the post. I told her about the bleeding I’d had, and that there’d been nothing since, so she was pleased about that. I mentioned about my headaches, she said I am safe to take 2 paracetemol, and if it doesn’t go after that then it is a “hormone headache”. …