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

now and will then start ageing. Remarkably, it will weigh around one sixth of the baby’s birth weight.I am finding it increasingly difficult to get a good night’s sleep. I cannot find a comfortable position unless I share my bed with 2,000 cushions

contractions did not ease off – sometimes they would speed up and I would have three in ten minutes.At 9am I rang the midwife: My partner rang the builders. The midwife came round at 10.30am and confirmed that I was in labour. “Those contractions that are meant

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

– a thick white coating whose job it is to protect her skin from the amniotic fluid that she’s floating in.Today my midwifery-led ante-natal classes started at the hospital. There is to be one per week for four weeks. Every one was there with a partner

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

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

before I am too fat to squeeze behind the steering wheel.It’s time to go to the hospital with my partner for my 20-week scan. I feel very excited when the sonographer does the scan, as the baby is so much clearer. We can detect arms, limbs, head – it’s so

the whole Christmas lark is over. I felt so incredibly sick on Christmas day that I had to lie down as cooking a turkey was out of the question. The next day I felt too awful to visit the rellies so my partner went on his own. Bet they just thought I

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