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28 Weeks ::

Posted by vicki brown on

Third trimester!
I can't really believe it, yet here I am, 12 weeks to go now.
This week has seen numerous hospital visits. I had to go down last Friday after having horrible pains over night and reduced movements. I put it off for a bit, feeling quite confident that everything was alright really, but in the end decided it was better to be safe than sorry. After 20 minutes of baby monitoring it...

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27 Weeks ::

Posted by vicki brown on

Thinking about birthing.  I know it's still a bit early but my mind has been mulling over my birthing options a lot over the last week or so.  I ordered 2 new books from amazon last week, Juju Sundin's, Birth Skills: Proven pain-management techniques for your labour and birth, which I read in my last pregnancy and loved and Ina May's Guide to Childbirthby Ina May Gaskin, which I spied someone...

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26 Weeks ::

Posted by vicki brown on

(Sorry this post is a bit late)

Thinking about names.  Johnny and I seem to be having the same problem we had with Milo, which is mainly Johnny doesn't seem to like any.  Well certainly not any I suggest anyway.
I know I've still got 14 weeks to go and I don't intend to have a 'set in stone', name in place before the baby's born, I certainly won't be calling my bump by anything other than 'her',...

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Cheltenham Food and Drink Festival ::

Posted by vicki brown on

This weekend sees our favourite of the Cheltenham festivals come to town; The Food and Drink Festival.  I don't think we've missed one year since we first moved here.  We're big food lovers in our house and every year we go armed with many shopping bags/rucksacks/coolbags to hunt out fabulous local and not so local, wonders and treats.


I particularly love taking Milo, as he's such an adventurous...

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Cheltenham Science Festival ::

Posted by vicki brown on

We are so lucky here in Cheltenham to have such a great range of festivals taking place throughout the year.  We have Jazz, Literature, Music and Science taking place between April and October.  All of these are fabulous and have a great range of events within them.
Last week was the Science Festival. We tend to go up to the main site every year to browse the tents and various free activities...

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