Phyl's Blog

As I said on 11-01-10, sleeping on my stomach is one of the pleasures I miss most when I am pregnant. The first night after having a baby I ...

When I had Anna back in 2007, I blogged the birth after a few days as a reminder to myself and Anna herself in years to come. Unfortunatel...

I had a baby in the Queen Mum's on Monday. Of course, the press has been full of Queen Mum's stories all week because it was shutti...

Léon had an appointment at Yorkhill on Friday morning. Of course, I had printed out photos of his latest spot and eczema problems and typed ...

When I told Lots I was pregnant back in the summer and that the baby was due on 09-01-10, her first comment was that I'd better not have...

So I woke up at 3-30am exactly with a twinge in the belly. A second one came at 3-45am and a third at 4am... I started trying to psych mysel...

And another thing while I'm ranting... I don't get the Maths... The hospital told me on 2 December that the baby was 3.1kg. The hos...

On Sunday I went to Ikea for some shopping. I was finding walking harder and harder, feeling like a nerve at the top of my left leg was trap...

I'm beginning to think we must have been in an ironic mood when we adopted the nickname Baked ... given how small baked beans are. After...

One of the things about pregnancy (and early breastfeeding, for that matter) is the change to your food requirements. I don't mean you l...

Yesterday I went into QMH for what I expected to be my usual least favourite ante-natal appointment. At 28 weeks I usually get dragged in f...

About 7 weeks ago Thomas and I found out the sex of Baby Baked Bean as part of the chromosome analysis following our amnio. I asked my close...

What is it with me and pregnancy? I seem to be more badly affected by headaches during pregnancy than anyone I know, particularly when I am ...

5 mins old Originally uploaded by PhylB I have just been reading an interesting article about childbirth on the BBC. I sounds like things ...

Yes, I know you are thinking: Yeah we noticed that 82 days ago ... but today I realized for sure the pregnancy hormones had disappeared. Nat...

Today Anna got to meet her Collins co-bump. Julie, from the Production (no pun intended) department was about 3.5 weeks behind me all throug...

I saw Thomas had blogged the birth right the way through from the triage farce to the arrival of Anna . I thought I'd leave myself a da...

After mentioning a few days ago that I'd have a comment to make if the baby should turn up on the due date predicted by my period rather...

Saw this last week - I thought I'd share it with you: If pregnancy were a book, the editor would probably cut the last 2 chapters... I c...

This baby has my reputation in tatters - I have never got beyond week 39+ before and here I am sitting 1 day overdue with no more twinges or...