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Lucy Lloyd's pregnancy diary - Month 8
By Lucy Lloyd on 28/03/2003 10:46:35
Weeks 28-32: Beset by heartburn and singing...
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...
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Lucy Lloyd's pregnancy diary - Month 9
By Lucy Lloyd on 29/04/2003 10:52:14
Weeks 32-36:
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...
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Lucy's first birth story
By Lucy Lloyd on 08/07/2003 10:16:25
A marathon labour with emergency c-section, but it was all worth it for the arrival of Sophie
About Lucy Finding out that she was pregnant for the first time came as a surprise for 35-year old journalist Lucy. Nine months later she was ready to be a Mum but less prepared for the marathon labour that was to come first. But when Sophie
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Lucy Lloyd's pregnancy diary - Month 5
By Lucy Lloyd on 29/12/2002 10:30:59
Weeks 16-20: Can it be possible that I'm still feeling seasick?
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...
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Lucy Lloyd's pregnancy diary - Month 6
By Lucy Lloyd on 29/01/2003 10:37:02
Weeks 20 - 24: It's real, we've seen the photographs!
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...
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Lucy Lloyd's pregnancy diary - Month 7
By Lucy Lloyd on 28/02/2003 10:40:32
Weeks 24-28: I cant' believe it, I've finally kicked the morning sickness. But what's with the waterworks?
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...
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Lucy Lloyd's pregnancy diary - Month 10
By Lucy Lloyd on 28/05/2003 11:04:53
Weeks 36-40: 40E? I could serve a salad in this bra cup!
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...
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Second time around for Lucy
By Lucy Lloyd on 08/11/2004 11:39:31
After an emergency c-section last time, Lucy hoped for a vaginal delivery for her second
About Lucy 36-year-old journalist Lucy approached her second labour hoping to have a very different experience from the first, and opting to try for a vaginal birth after caesarian. Here's her second birth story for ThinkBaby.With my first
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