Category Archives: christmas baby

A Year Ago Today…

A year ago today everything was different.

Posted in 2016, baby, baby Eden, baby girl, christmas baby, Clomid, first baby, infertility, Infertility, pregnancy after infertility | Tagged , , , , | 8 Comments

Eden – The First Six Weeks

Sorry I’ve been so bloody awful about keeping the blog up to date. At the moment days all just blur into one – but I’m taking the opportunity of Amy having a long weekend off work to get some catching … Continue reading

Posted in 2016, baby, baby Eden, baby girl, christmas baby, Dogs, eden, first baby, newborn. Baby, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Our Birth Story

I promised it would be on the way soon, so here’s the story of how Eden came into the world. I have to admit that birth was nothing like I thought it would be and neither was our journey – … Continue reading

Posted in 2015, baby Eden, baby girl, Birth announcement, birth story, cervix, christmas baby, cramps, doppler, dr, first baby, full term, head down, healthcare, high blood pressure, hospital, hypertension, Induction, labour, Labour, London, maternity, midwife, mum, mummies, mummy, NHS, pregnancy, pregnancy after infertility, pregnancy after loss, Scan, support, third trimester, tiredness | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Merry Christmas and Happy Due Date, Eden

Just a quick one from me today. I promise I will be back with birth story and updates from our first ten days with our little girl. We’re just all caught up in baby haze at the moment, so blogging … Continue reading

Posted in 2015, baby, baby Eden, baby girl, christmas baby, eden, lgbt, two mums | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

When You Wish Upon A Star…

Those of you that know me know what a Disney Dork I can be. I LOVE Disney. The movies, the songs, the theme parks, I love them all. So, it’s hardly surprising that I’m the kind of girl who would … Continue reading

Posted in 2015, baby Eden, baby girl, christmas, christmas baby, Disney, eden, first baby, full term, future, girl, lesbian, lgbt, London, mother, mothers, mum, mummies, mummy, pregnancy, pregnancy after infertility, pregnancy after loss, pregnant, third trimester | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Families Aren’t Always Mum+Dad+Baby=Family

Tomorrow (at 17+5) I have my sixteen week midwife appointment. One of the things Amy and I have noticed so far in our NHS antenatal journey, is that our local services are not very diversity friendly at all. They seem … Continue reading

Posted in 2015, Anxiety, baby girl, child, children, christmas baby, lesbians, lgbt, midwife | Tagged , , , | 7 Comments

Our Announcement – How We Told The World!

We had been planning how we would announce for a VERY long time! But there are so many great ideas around! Should we use the dogs? A chalk board? Four pictures one word? A comic strip? So many choices! We … Continue reading

Posted in 2015, babies, baby, baby Chip, buckingham palace, child, Chip, christmas, christmas baby, couple, first trimester, garden party, gay, lesbian, lesbians, lgbt, mummies, mummy, pregnancy, pregnant, twelve weeks | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments

Twelve Week Scan! We Made It!

Yesterday was our twelve week scan. Officially we were 12+4, but here they like to do it between 11+3 and 14+3, so we were right in the middle. I have to say that, even though we had seen Chip twice … Continue reading

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