Parenting

Since I spend most of my life being sarcastic and/or moaning about the incompetence of myself or others, I thought it would be good to pause, and think of all the things that are grrrrrreat about being pregnant. 1. Hopefully get a cute little baby at the end of it. […]

“Hello casual acquaintance. I hope you’re well? And may I say, you have an unusually large nose for a 29-year-old.”No, that doesn’t go down well in social situations. So why is it appropriate to pass comment on the size of a near-stranger’s baby bump? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking […]

And made me really, really happy. At Tuesday night’s Glamour Awards, I was on the red carpet as usual doing all the celeb interviews – and half way through my interview with Kate Hudson she noticed I was pregnant, and this happened… The bump has friends in high places already. […]

Reasons for going on holiday include: to relax; the experience different cultures; to see another part of the world; to relax a bit more.  The different culture element, particularly experiencing the cuisine, architecture, local customs etc has always been a major factor for me. But every once in a while, […]

I need to stop watching One Born Every Minute. I can’t handle it.  I’d watched it a couple of times before, but now I can’t get enough. You can watch the entire back catalogue of series on 4OD, and knowing that you’re going to go through it yourself makes it […]

A pivotal moment in my pregnancy, or possibly life at a larger scale… Going into Marks & Spencer with my mum and buying the exact same pants. Is that it now? Have I turned into my mother? Only time (and pants) will tell.

The second trimester is supposed to be the good part of pregnancy. The sickness has stopped, your ‘pretty hormones’ kick in (hair thickens, skin starts to glow, people say ‘wow you look well etc etc’), you’re not yet as big as a house so can enjoy being pregnant without drastically […]

Dear red wine. I miss you. Since we’ve been apart (four months and 11 days, not that I’m counting), you’ve been everywhere around me. As I write this the lady next to me on the train is drinking you, from a mini plastic bottle decanted into a flimsy clear plastic […]

Answer = Get new hair. Since I’ve been pregnant, I’ve thought of practically nothing else. Which I guess is normal, given that I’ve never grown another human before. But it can be pretty consuming: nine months is a long time to entertain just the one thought. I hadn’t been to […]