Tag: baby number five

The fourth trimester

Just like that, we’re out of the fourth trimester. These three months have flown by, yet at the same time some days have felt like twenty, and there have been...

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Oren’s Birth Story

I promised myself that this pregnancy, I wouldn’t expect him to arrive early, yet the last three weeks I was so impatient. I was tired and achy and just wanted...

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Dear Bean – A Maternity Shoot

I got these photos back just before I went into labour with Oren, and didn’t have a chance to share them! I’ve never had any ‘real’ photos taken when pregnant...

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Dear Bean – Week Forty

Dear Bean Full term! Now it’s time for you to come out please. All is good, though I’ve not been sleeping well as I’m so uncomfortable in bed now. I’m...

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Dear Bean – Week Thirty Seven

Holy Moly! Thirty Seven Weeks!!! I can not believe we’re almost at the finishing line already. in some ways, it feels like forever since I announced this baby was on...

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Dear Bean – Week Thirty Five

Dear Bean Not too much to report this week. I’ve had lots of Braxton Hicks, Bean is sitting really low – which is good I guess, but mighty uncomfortable! I’ve...

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Dear Bean – Week Thirty Four

Dear Bean Another week down… still feeling pretty OK. I’m tired and achey, but that’s to be expected. I’m feeling fairly good, sleeping OK, Bean is very wriggly still. I’m...

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Dear Bean – Week Thirty Two

Dear Bean How have we hit 32 weeks already? part of me feels like I’ve been pregnant forever, yet at the same time the last few weeks have really flown....

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Dear Bean – Week Thirty One

Dear Bean Nine weeks to go! I’ve felt much better this week… physically and mentally. I’m still tired, and will honestly be glad to not be pregnant, but at the...

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Dear Bean – Week Thirty

Dear Bean It always feels like a milestone is met when I hit the thirty-week mark! Ten weeks to go… or thereabouts. Bump is all good, my back is still...

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Single and Pregnant

I wrote that title and then realised it sounds like some crappy reality TV show. Ha! This pregnancy has been hard. Physically draining as I’m five years older than last...

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Dear Bean – Week Twenty Nine

Dear Bean 29 weeks down, only 11 to go! Midwife appointment this morning went well, bump is measuring spot on, I’m still feeling pretty good other than the intense back...

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