6 weeks ago, I had the worse experience of my life when I got my bikini line (and a bit more) done. You may remember me begging 'just leave the other side!' I was hoping someone out there might have advice or at least just confirm my suspicions that being extra sensitive during pregnancy was another symptom.

Well, 6 weeks later and I've been back to face up to the music. I was rather apprehensive, to say the least, but either I was being a major drama queen 6 weeks ago or, of the early pregnancy symptoms, extra sensitivity was high on my list. The wax was totally fine and probably hurt as much as it normally does - maybe a wee bit more. I did take a couple of paracetamols and kept my promise not to shave in between waxes. So, that's it. Very boring, drama over. I am ready to

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Now then, this list is not for the faint of hearts and it finally covers, as promised, the illusive extra boob syndrome. So, before I got into it and since the sun was shining (which it wasn't this morning and isn't now) I thought I'd go for a walk on the beach (this is the nice bit of Blyth!). It was gorgeous walking along listening to Sigur Ros.

Right that's enough wooing you into a false sense of security...

I took it away on our mini holiday with my parents and only managed to get halfway through as I either had a pained expression on my face or I looked like I was going to be sick. So I was kindly asked to put it away while it was still the festive season. That aside - there was enough horrifying gold in the first half alone to put together a list of

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