Just a heads up that this is going to be a ranty, moany post BUT I need you all to know that despite this I am aware of how blessed I am to have twins, to have successfully carried children and to be able to even get pregnant at all. I'm not ungrateful I just [...]
Single. Mama. My Diary. NICU realness.
I think I've rewritten this post about 10 times because my Neonatal Intensive Care experience with the twins seems so minor compared to what I imagine other parents go through with their children who have spent time there too. I hadn't ever really thought in depth about what the NICU stay must be like or [...]
2018 Blessings. A twin birth story.
On a frikkin freezing January morning I headed out for a 9am appointment at the hospital- my 34 week scan! All was well in the world... Obviously still pregnant. Not a Braxton Hicks in sight. Stretch marks looked as though they were about to make an appearance. Excited that I had managed to secure a [...]
2017 mistakes. Am I allowed forgiveness?
2017 was a rough year for me and the reality is that the majority of it was my own doing. I've had to really reach deep inside myself, acknowledge the worst parts of me and work hard on changing. Some of my aims for this coming year is to focus on myself, develop my sense [...]
Single. Mama. My Diary. Struggling with everything.
So I wrote a pregnancy update a week ago talking about how I was doing well and how I've been keeping active etc... Well my friends that ship has sunk, very quickly I might add. Basically overnight. Eliyah hurt his arm, I took him to a&e, a nurse popped his elbow back into place, 2 [...]
32 week twin pregnancy update…
8 months guys! 8 MONTHS......... 5 weeks to go and it's going to flash past especially because of the Christmas period. I can't quite comprehend it to be honest. How did this happen so fast? I'd been gearing up for a tough month after my last update mainly because I'd started to feel super emotional [...]
Pregnant with my best friend…
So no one warned me that having a child would change the friendships I have. I feel like its definitely something that got looked over in pregnancy manuals just like the trauma of your first poo after childbirth (seems like common sense but when your focused on how a head will make it out your [...]
