I have my 14-week appointment at the hospital. My partner comes with me and I'm grateful for his company and concern. I feel like a bad sailor in a storm – sick beyond belief. We get shunted from pillar to post at the hospital but eventually go to have our ultrasound scan and ar...

I have just started yoga classes for pregnancy and childbirth on the advice of my midwife. They are meant to leave you feeling calm and relaxed after two hours of beneficial stretching (two hours!!!). Somehow the first class didn’t live up to my expectations. Far too much navel g...

My feet seem have to have swelled an awful lot and look really misshapen. But – whoa! – my ankles take the biscuit. They are starting to resemble a pair of thunder thighs and I feel most ungainly. My midwife says I’ve got oedema – puffiness in my ankles and my hands (I can no lon...

I can’t believe that at 16 weeks I am still feeling seasick. Everyone tells you this is meant to pass at three months. “You’re obviously having a girl,” say other women I bump into. “They make you far more sick.” I don’t want to dwell on the sex of my child too much, especially a...

I am half way through my pregnancy at 20 weeks but I am more preoccupied about having just failed my driving test at the moment. If I don’t pass before the baby is born, I fear I will never get round to it. I have decided to book one last test before I am too fat to squeeze behin...

It’s a miracle. Sing hosanna! I have finally stopped feeling sick after six… count ’em… six whole months. The feeling of being permanently moored to the deck of a dinghy has finally vanished. I am ecstatic. I am beginning to feel ‘normal’ again – whatever normal is when your fron...

What’s going on? What on earth is this 10-month thing? I thought humans had a nine-month pregnancy. It seems to have been going on forever. I feel in two minds about everything: I am desperate to stop feeling elephantine and to get this baby out and yet I also don’t want her to a...

new style of skirt or a new haircut!Keep a diary - As we said above, just thinking about what you're eating can instantly help.The five a day routine - If you don't already, really think about aiming to eat at least five portions of fruit and

About Lucy A 35-year-old journalist, Lucy fell pregnant unexpectedly in August - much to the delight of long-term partner Chris. The couple went from the imminent prospect of a backpacking tour of Asia and South America, to the less imminent but rather more life-changing pr...

from the treatment, it’s great to chat about it to someone who has been there.Week 7I couldn’t write a diary for a few weeks as I felt so ill and was concentrating on deep breathing and dashes to the loo instead. My GP saw all this as ‘normal’ although