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Indigestion and intermittent spotting the newest of my pregnancy symptoms that I didn't have last time :roll:

by the end of the day I feel like a ballon due to all the air that seems to collect in my stomach. On the plus side the baby movements I have been feeling are becoming more obvious and I notice them more often, which is reassurance after the spotting. Got my 16 week MW appointment on...

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and I can't find my way out. I'm trying so hard not to break down in tears at every little thing at the minute. OH has hit a bad place emotionally and he won't admit it so he's taking a lot of it out on me but on Saturday I just couldn't take it anymore and walked out of the hospital and left him there, I also didn't go back yesterday, I thought if I gave him chance to think he might pull out of it. Unfortunately not, I phoned him earlier on and I got another tirade. I'm tired (one of the things...

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...To not have food or drink after 8pm? Well, it was another bad acid reflux night that even the usually effective Gaviscon couldn't help with. Oh well, at least I can sleep in when I want to (given that I'm only working tomorrow, and that the first job in weeks). Still, I have a voluntary job to do today- sorting out bat and mammal records for this county for our bat group. Should be fairly tedious but it's something to do that's not housework! ...

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So many people have asked me how wool can possibly make an efficient nappy cover, that I thought it was time to start a blog. So here goes.

How does wool work as a nappy cover?

I'll start with an explanation. Wool is absorbent, but absorbs very slowly. Because of the body heat of your baby, and the warmth of the wool, it also allows moisture to evaporate, and this happens at the same rate as it absorbs, especially if the...

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It being half term, I snuck in a wee cranial osteopathy session for the minis. Now, I don't know how crunchy you all are, but I'm pretty granola. But even I hadn't spent my hard earned cash on someone stroking my head to cure all ills. Until I saw the most amazing Lactation Consultant when Kits was so poorly, and she said it was a must. At that point, I would have danced naked round trees in the street if someone had suggested it would save my baby, so off we went.

We met him, we sat with a...

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