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Michelle McCann - Mummy McCann »
Week 19
Posted on 1:08pm Friday 17th July 2009
Week 19 starts with a sore throat, snotty nose, aching back and another day off work. Gav takes the laptop to work with him so I can rest completely and make sure I am ok to see our tiny great niece this weekend.
Michelle McCann - Mummy McCann »
Week 18
Posted on 12:49pm Friday 17th July 2009
It’s the day after the flood from upstairs. I head off for a work training day only to have to throw up when I get there and return home feeling lousy and back to bed. I spend the rest of the day at home lying on the bed.
Michelle McCann - Mummy McCann »
Week 17
Posted on 1:37pm Friday 10th July 2009
I feel faint, hot and exhausted. I am constipated and feel fat. I am yet to look pregnant and am feeling podgy. I hope this isn't a sign of how I'll feel all summer. I have started to get clumsy and at a work meeting nearly fall backwards over my chair when I go to hand out cups of coffee. I am embarrassed but two colleagues look concerned at me and I get told to sit down! I go home with all of these feelings going on and trying to organise them and tell myself that this is normal.
Michelle McCann - Mummy McCann »
Week 16
Posted on 1:32pm Friday 10th July 2009
Morning sickness gets less. I'm not sure about all this feeling great malarkey as I just feel normal but very nice it is to feel normal.
Michelle McCann - Mummy McCann »
Week 12
Posted on 1:30pm Friday 10th July 2009
This is the week of our first scan and Jo has taken to calling our little bean Little Carrot. Two reasons: my Grams named us all when we were little and these names have stuck in our adult lives. Mine was Carrot Top. Since it is a almost certainty that our child will be a redhead the name will probably stick.
Michelle McCann - Mummy McCann »
Week 11
Posted on 1:28pm Friday 10th July 2009
We already know that our baby will be a gig baby. Gav has played the guitar for the majority of his life and I want the baby to be bought up in a musical environment. After seeing Ultravox on April 23 our next gig was a festival. All Tomorrow's Parties at Butlins, Minehead. By this time it seemed sensible to spread the news so that I could feel a bit safer and looked after.
Michelle McCann - Mummy McCann »
Week 9
Posted on 5:03pm Monday 6th July 2009
Saw the midwife for the first time. Blood taken. I really hate having to pee in a pot! Luckily hubby is with me and the midwife is really lovely. I am not sure that her telling me about lots of blood being at the birth helps my confidence in all of this but oh well at least it is honest!
Michelle McCann - Mummy McCann »
Week 5
Posted on 5:02pm Monday 6th July 2009
And so morning sickness starts. In fact it is a queasy feeling all day long and night along with the most extreme tiredness I have ever felt (even after a late and very drunk night out). How you are meant to hide this at work is crazy! I end up in bed at around 7pm every evening and leave hubby alone. Feel guilty but the extremes of tiredness make sure I am sleeping for around 12 hours a night. I am tired, I feel grotty and know that I am becoming a bit moody.
Michelle McCann - Mummy McCann »
Week 4
Posted on 5:00pm Monday 6th July 2009
So I find out I am 4 weeks pregnant (although why it’s 4 weeks and not actually 2 took a bit of thinking to understand) two days before my 30th Birthday. This obviously changes my celebration plans a great deal and I couldn’t be happier. In my 30th year I got married and had the most fantastic wedding... We had planned for a baby not long before the wedding and naively thought we would have a year before we would conceive. To our surprise we were pregnant within two months of trying and a month after our wedding. One test done on a Saturday morning and then just in case another one on the Sunday. I would have probably done another if my sister in law hadn’t said that there was rarely a false positive. The amount of excitement is incredible. Who do you tell? I mean waiting for until 12 weeks is impossible! We decided parents and best friends however, this is not as easy as it seems.
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