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Times Series journalist Caron Kemp blogs about first-time motherhood. |
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Night time nightmares
Posted on 7:54am Thursday 5th June 2008
Now that I have an avocado sized foetus attached to my insides (plus all the padding that comes with it), I am really having trouble sleeping.
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The avocado baby
Posted on 12:37pm Monday 2nd June 2008
I had my hair done at the weekend. I was a little worried because a lot of my pregnancy reading material warns those in the family way to avoid peroxide or hair dyes at all costs for fear of your beautiful locks going green.
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Wardrobe worries
Posted on 7:56am Thursday 29th May 2008
Now that I have waved goodbye to my (occasional) flat stomach and (almost) proportionate figure, I have had to go out and scour the maternity sections of the high street stores so that my clothes start fitting me again.
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It's better left unsaid
Posted on 7:52am Tuesday 27th May 2008
Why is it that pregnant women are suddenly privy to details of other people’s labours whether they like it or not?
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Food glorious food
Posted on 9:13am Thursday 22nd May 2008
There are many things about pregnancy that you don’t get told until there’s no turning back. The grim details of labour, the less well known and less wonderful side effects of carrying another human being around for nine months and the highs and extreme lows of becoming a feeding station for the little one when it arrives. (I’ll spare you any more detail as I’m just not that cruel.)
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Growing into a roll
Posted on 9:40am Tuesday 20th May 2008
As soon as it finally sinks in that in about six months your life is going to change indescribably and forever, you start to share this notion with the world.
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The first 12 weeks
Posted on 9:39am Tuesday 20th May 2008
Twelve weeks doesn’t seem so long in normal time. But when you struggle to lift your head off the pillow each morning through a combination of sheer exhaustion and nausea, your clothes start to strangle your expanding belly and your every thought is taken over by the anxiety that everything is ok, it can seem like the longest time of your life.
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