Tuesday 13th Dec

Spent the morning printing out Gark News for the Christmas cards, handing in an assignment and failing to get Nick to pick up his mobile or office phones when I called (a tad worrying as I was already 2 days overdue). Meet Nick for lunch and then went off to do the very last minute Xmas shopping in West Quay (horrid assistant in M& ( Read more... )

There were only 97 other women aged 35+ who had an abortion in Southampton last year, according to the latest abortion statistics for England and Wales.

I wonder how many of them were also included in the 1% (2,085) of terminations carried out under clause E ("substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or ( Read more... )

First day back in work after a week in Ulster visiting the aged parents and i should be ploughing through a week's worth of email but instead I noticed the following article on the Beeb's website:

Complication risk for older mums

and the paper the report is based on (not in the RCOG journal as the Beeb report states):
Smith GCS, Cordeaux Y, ( Read more... )

On Thursday 6th August we went for our first appointment at the Recurrent Miscarriage clinic at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton. We didn't see the consultant as his clinic which we were booked into should have been cancelled as he was on holiday but something had obviously gone wrong in the admin dept. So instead we saw his Registrar ( Read more... )

Gacked from Mrs Eff, Madame Zaritska predicts that:
The day you deliver, outside will be foggy. Your baby will arrive in the morning.

After a labor lasting approximately 16 hours, your child, a boy, will be born. Your baby will weigh about 6 pounds, 7 ounces, and will be 19-1/2 inches long. This child will have blue eyes and be completely bald

I was going to do a bouncy post about my belly button almost being an outie at long last, having checked and found out that I can get in and out of the birthing pools at tonight's antenatal and also having tried out my breast pump first the first time and within a couple of compressions getting a drop of the liquid gold that is colostrum (a change ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd post an update at 35 weeks ( Read more... )

Garklet is not yet born and already s/he is part of a clinical study! Rar!

I've just had a phonecall from the study looking at the effects of maternal diet on the development of allergies in newborns and they want us to be part of the study. So this means that tomorrow Gibbins and myself have to go off for allergen testing at the General.

Given ( Read more... )

I seem once again to have stuck lucky on eBay (famous last words!)

Today my search for Mamas and Papas travel systems threw up a Pilko P3 Pramette in west Sussex. I was about to add it to my watched list when I noticed it had a buy-it-now price of £50. So I bought it.

It really doesn't matter that we're not likely to use the car seat (we'd ( Read more... )

The u/s this morning went well. Realised part of the reason I'm not feeling garklet is that s/he is facing toward my spine, however the twinges I feel in my ovaries when I move suddenly are probably garklet being moved about.

( more happy mummy rambling within )