37 Weeks Pregnant - co-sleeping? room-sharing? bed-sharing? sleep training?
We’ve had family from Italy staying for a month, and they went home this week. I also had my last home visit with my last client before my maternity leave. So now I feel I am able to focus on the final preparations for our baby to arrive! There’s not a lot to do, but even so I’m breaking it down into smaller tasks to make it easier to get to. This week’s task was emptying the bassinet in our bedroom and finding storage for all the stuff I’ve been dumping in it! And yes, my babies sleep in a bassinet... I’ve found that the topic of newborn sleep is one of the most hotly-debated on social media and on parenting and new mum forums. Honestly, to my way of thinking it’s actually a pretty straightforward topic. What I mean is...
22 Weeks Pregnant - ultrasounds in pregnancy: good or bad?
So! We had our anatomy/morphology ultrasound, and if you were following my Instagram stories you’ll know that our baby is... a boy!! I am so thrilled that my girls will have a brother, and for sure excited that he has such amazing big sisters 🥰
This feels like a good opportunity to chat a bit about ultrasounds in pregnancy. We’re so used to them, they’re completely the norm, but have you ever actually thought about the pros and cons?
20 Weeks Pregnant - halfway there? A discussion on due dates
A common comment to hear at 20 weeks pregnant is, “Oh, so you're halfway there!” This is probably roughly true, but let’s talk about due dates! Firstly, have you ever wondered who decided that a pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, and how they came to that conclusion? And most of all, how on earth is it that 40 weeks has come to be seen as a deadline, as if the mother or baby are all of a sudden at high risk from one day to the next?