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39 Weeks ::

Posted by vicki brown on

So this will definitely be my last pregnancy post. Unless this baby decides to make an appearance of her own accord, next Thursday I will be induced and therefore as long as it all goes well and reasonably quickly, hopefully I'll have a baby by next Friday.

I'm still feeling pretty good to be honest, I tend to get pretty uncomfortable by the end of the day and my back is still giving me quite a few...

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38 Weeks ::

Posted by vicki brown on

Oh my the summer holidays really got in the way of my blogging time, I'm so sorry for my sudden disappearance.

It's been a few weeks since my last pregnancy update now, obviously she didn't arrive in August as I had hoped! But things are going pretty well.



There have been a few unexpected hospital visits, another scan and much talk about induction. Fortunately all these extra visits and tests have...

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34 Weeks ::

Posted by vicki brown on

Yesterday I had my growth scan and consultant appointment.  The purpose of which was to access how everything was going after problems I had with placental abruption in my last pregnancy.
The scan went really well, she's head down and still definitely a girl.  All the measurements were happily within the average size ranges, she now weighs 5lb 1oz.
The doctors seemed happy with everything, as she's...

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Camp Bestival :: Camping ::

Posted by vicki brown on

Yesterday we returned from a fabulous four days at the beautiful Lulworth Castle for Camp Bestival. I plan on doing a couple of other posts about some of our very favourite parts of the festival but for today I'll write a little about our camping experience.

We arrived Thursday afternoon, giving us plenty of time to set up camp and attempt a good nights sleep all ready for the main event starting...

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Summer Holidaying ::

Posted by vicki brown on

Woohoo...summer holidays are here.  After my boy's first year at school, we are all so very ready for this 6 week break.  He's loved school so much, but 6 weeks off, in the sunshine, a fresh new class come September and all to coincide with my maternity leave are just what we need.

We started as me meant to go on, by heading straight to Sanford Lidoafter school on Friday, to spend a couple of hours...

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