My daughter bus 53cm long and all the newborn clothes are too small and the 3 month clothes too big. The sun is constantly out at the moment and I don't have any sun protection. Yesterday primark produced the perfect items but they were all classed as "for boys". I bought them anyway. I think Meryl wears them well.

It's been awhile since I posted, but I'm now officially a mum.
My daughter arrived early at 36 weeks. She had glucose issue and suffered with jaundice, but after a week in hospital we finally came home as a family. It was worth everything I suffered through during the pregnancy, just to finally hold my little Meryl.

Baby was born today and it was very difficult. Torn my labia so badly that it's likely to need some cosmetic surgery. Not only that but I went into shock overnight and couldn't breathe.

No one tells you about the mental shock immediately after the birth. You try to rest but your mind just wants to relive the traumatic event over and over. It's scaring

33 weeks and ready to be done. Doctor informs me that I'm likely to go into labour early because I have a small bump and my condition is continuing to decline. Forecast is within the next 3 weeks.

Oh, I keep forgetting. I want to ask you all a few questions that popped up over the last few weeks:

1) does your baby seem to completely stop moving when you're in the bath (when pregnant)? I think mine loves water like me

2) have you kept your positive pregnancy test from your first baby?

3) (gross warning) how can you tell the difference between your mucus plug coming out and normal pregnancy discharge?

I've made it to 30 weeks. I'm a little surprised to be honest considering all the issues I've had.
I've also had a pretty stressful week as I got married too. Most people think I'm insane for doing that whilst pregnant but we were engaged before we got pregnant so it just made sense.
Some how I also find time to paint and relax. I painted this for my sister. It's one of many pet portraits I've done over the year. I'm guessing I won't have much time to do painting once my little girl arrives.

It's been a busy few weeks. Confined to working from home as the baby girl is causing me a lot of pain. She's so long and limbs all over, that she's putting pressure into the growing ovarian cyst.

In addition to that, I've started lactating, heavily. So much so that I've had to start expressing. Which means leaking, and more pain.

Joy lol

The baby didn't move all morning yesterday and I was in a lot of pain. I called an ambulance and hospital checked what was going on. They couldn't find her heartbeat at first, then they looks as low as the could.

It turns out she had moved so low down, she'd wedged herself in my pelvis horizontally and the pain I was in was from her putting pressure directly onto my endometriotic cyst, kicking it directly.

She's a little bugger

My partner is wonderful but he just can't understand how hard it is for me to not get depressed over my situation. We've been hit with nothing but bad luck over the last few months. Struggling with HG, having to cancel our wedding because of documents and now this endometriosis cyst threatening to cause me complications. How can anyone stay optimistic whilst knowing there's this inevitable pain going to happen that could also threatened our unborn child

Just found out that I have either a bleed in my cervix or an endometriotic cyst in my ovary....whilst pregnant.
My pain is just starting but due to the doctor's not being able to do anything whilst I'm pregnant, they've confirmed my pain will get worse until they are able to safely operate. I have 15 weeks ahead of me that I'm now terrified of because my previous endometriosis cyst literally crippled me and left me bedbound for months and that was on strong painkillers. Now I can only have para...