Week 39 – still hanging in here
Photo © English Mamma How far along?: 39 weeks and 1 day Total weight gain/loss: Probably around 10 kilos – maybe a little more. What I don’t understand is how this is possible. I will be the first to...
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Photo © English Mamma How far along? 27 weeks and 3 days Total weight gain/loss: I’m very confused as either my weight is fluctuating randomly or our bathroom scales are highly inaccurate. The midwife...
View ArticleWeek 30 – fleeting sleep
How far along? 30 weeks and 5 days Total weight gain/loss: Still quite confused about this – my weight seems to fluctuate by around a kilo from day to day. Stretch marks?: I think I have an extra one...
View ArticleWeek 33 – raspberry leaf tea time
Photo © English Mamma How far along? 33 weeks and 5 days Total weight gain/loss: I think I’ve put on about seven kilos but as I’ve said before, it’s all a little vague. Stretch marks?: Thanks to the...
View ArticleWeek 34 – slow moving
Photo © English Mamma How far along?: 34 weeks and 4 days Total weight gain/loss: Still fluctuating weight but no one else seems that concerned,s o I guess it is fine. That said, my colleagues all...
View ArticleLearned this week
This week, I learned that… baking macarons is still fun but also still time-consuming, with still a lot to learn I am starting to understand Twitter a bit more now gyermek is a very active and wriggly...
View ArticleWeek 36 – So near, yet so far…
Photo © English Mamma How far along?: 36 weeks and 3 days Total weight gain/loss: Who knows! What I do know is that I feel huge and only getting bigger each day… Stretch marks?: Oh yes, many. Luckily,...
View ArticlePhoto 366 challenge – days 2-5/366
Hmm, of course, I had forgotten that 2012 is a leap year, so there are in fact 366 days this year… And then I see from others’ tweets that there is actually a site called 365 Project. So, now the...
View ArticleLearned this week
This week, I learned that… or more accurately, remembered what Braxton-Hicks contractions feel like – urgh a toddler’s night terrors are pretty upsetting for a parent to witness (and I only hope that...
View ArticleWeek 38 – getting close
How far along?: 38 weeks and 2 days Total weight gain/loss: I think about 10 kilos in total. The midwife weighed me at my appointment on Tuesday but she was quite willing to weigh me fully clothed and...
View ArticleEvery mother thinks her baby is beautiful, but…
According to makemebabies.com, this is what gyermek will look like… Is it just me, or is this a very sinister looking baby? The post Every mother thinks her baby is beautiful, but… appeared first on An...
View ArticleWeek 40 update
How far along?: 40 weeks and 2 days Total weight gain/loss: 14 and a half kilos Stretch marks?: Building up a collection now around the appendix scar and on the underside of one breast. Apparently,...
View ArticleA typical Taurean already?
DARK ASPECTS OF TAURUS: Stubborn, jealous, self-righteous, dogmatic, strong and silent, can appear ignorant and obstinate, lazy, possessive, self-indulgent, inflexible, unoriginal, unimaginative,...
View ArticleThe Gallery: Heritage
Photo © English Mamma The Gallery challenge this week from Tara at Sticky Fingers is: the world we live in. This is a picture I took on a long weekend trip to Budapest in May 2007. This imperious lion...
View ArticleWalking tour, walking cure
Photo © English Mamma Today I spent an hour and a half walking around the city, taking pics, exploring streets and alleyways that I’ve not wandered along before and generally trying to encourage...
View ArticleA new arrival
Little baby O was born on 11 May at 00.50, weighing 3.24kg and 50cm in length. We brought our beautiful boy home today. English Mamma The post A new arrival appeared first on An English Mamma in...
View Article2010 review
To celebrate the new year, I thought I’d take a quick look back at 2010, month by month. January: I got itchy feet. Just knowing that I only had a couple of months left in which I could travel but not...
View ArticleThe Gallery – My weekend
What perfect timing! The prompt for this week’s Gallery is My weekend, and we have just returned from a long weekend in Budapest. In some ways the weekend ended up feeling a little longer than it...
View ArticleDid you guess?
This is something that I had forgotten that I did every so often during my first pregnancy and so I thought that I would resurrect it (oh, did I mention that I was pregnant…? Well, that is what this...
View ArticleThe halfway point
Photo © English Mamma How far along? 20 weeks and 6 days Total weight gain/loss: Just weighed myself and have put on about three kilos (eek!) but I do have an excuse: we’ve just returned from two weeks...
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