In 4 days time I’m off to London for the MADs Awards ceremony. For me, getting into the last 5 or 6 in two categories was winning really; I’ve not got anything like the following of lots of my fellow finalists and I’m not very prize motivated either really. Getting those votes and getting to […]
19 Weeks Pregnant
Marmite has made it to 19 weeks and is still going strong 🙂 Yesterday my consultant and I agreed I am now half way. We have a date that should be Marmite’s birthday and a plan of sorts. The plan falls somewhere between mental health padded cell accommodation for me and the best and most […]
Tommy's 5 Point Pregnancy Plan – Make a difference.
I have walked out of a maternity unit leaving my dead newborn son behind me. I have driven home, unaware that I left the building in my pyjamas and walked across the car park in socks and stared blankly at the car in front for a 20 minute journey home; that car had a ‘baby […]
Dreams : One : Two : Three
We forgot to go to Freddie’s funeral. We were busy, the girls were alive and needed us and life goes on and… oh my word, it was today and we forgot. Max was okay with it; after all, it was just a procedure, he didn’t need us there, the girls needed us. It was just […]
Defying Gravity
This is the name of the song which has been sung around here so much recently that eventually I sent an email to the girls theatre teacher informing them that she was likely to get custody of them quite soon 😆 This week they were at a workshop, rehearsing a short version of the show […]
Breathe Deeply… Take the Plunge.
I never did this with Freddie so early. This time, it is different. This time, if this might be all I get of this baby, I want to record every step of the way. Even though we’re already 13 weeks along. 13 weeks. 6 or so scans. Some ups and downs already, with a mysteriously […]