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Times Series journalist Caron Kemp blogs about first-time motherhood. |
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The countdown has begun
Posted on 10:04am Friday 29th August 2008
I’m really beginning to feel like time is ticking away suddenly. I have a matter of days until I start antenatal classes, just seven weeks until I go on maternity leave and then a mere eleven weeks until I am due. How did it all come about so quickly?
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Models of parenting
Posted on 8:00am Tuesday 26th August 2008
I decided to use the long weekend and my imminent arrival at the third trimester to start reading up about what happens once the baby is born. It’s all very well following my journey over these nine months with various tales from a range of celebrities and unknown mothers alike, but soon enough I am going to need to know what to do once I am caring for this child outside of my womb and I can’t rely purely on instinct.
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The search for the perfect pram
Posted on 12:02pm Monday 18th August 2008
We decided this weekend to pretend the nursery issues didn’t exist and go looking again at fun things like the pram. Except that even this decision is proving to be the stuff of nightmares.
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The nursery? What nursery?
Posted on 9:39am Thursday 14th August 2008
In the process of wanting to turn the spare room into a nursery we have created a junk yard.
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The exhaustion of it all
Posted on 8:18am Monday 11th August 2008
I am so tired. Not just tired like you’ve not had a great night’s sleep tired, but exhausted. Weary. Fatigued. Worn-out. Done.
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Ruler baby
Posted on 9:55am Friday 8th August 2008
I read a story yesterday about a dog who swallowed a two-foot stick.
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No more heatwave, please
Posted on 8:47am Monday 4th August 2008
It’s funny what being pregnant does to you. As someone who was on the verge of destroying every air conditioning system ever made and the person who cleverly invented it, it came as quite a surprise to me that it has now become my friend.
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A conversation starter
Posted on 11:01am Thursday 31st July 2008
Now that there is no denying that I am in the family way, myself and my pregnancy have become the chosen topic of conversation. And not just among friends with whom I kind of expect my impending motherhood to be discussed, but also with every Tom, Dick and Harry who even momentarily crosses my path.
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The six month struggle
Posted on 7:54am Monday 28th July 2008
At 24 weeks things are really beginning to change.
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Kick me. Please.
Posted on 8:00am Thursday 24th July 2008
I’m now at that stage in my pregnancy where I am hanging on every kick the baby makes.
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