This is your PREVENT STRETCH MARKS Shopping List! I was meant to post this yesterday but I was in such a shitty mood! I’m telling you, staying up late on a Saturday night when you're this pregnant is not worth it.

I’d spent yesterday worrying about work, feeling emotional about the birth (a.k.a. pushing the baby out of that tiny hole and where I should do said pushing) and other such things. So, when I discovered O2 had taken £300 out of my account (when they shouldn’t have, I’d already spent 45 minutes on the phone with them to make sure they didn’t take any money and was assured they wouldn’t) it felt like the end of the world. And, the final icing on the cake? I dropped something on my hand and it hurt so I cried and that put paid to any attempt I was going to make to

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I really admire what The Shape of a Mother's creator is trying to achieve - namely giving mothers a place to show off their mum badges of honour and talk about how they feel about them. The idea being this is liberating and shows people what women really look like when they aren't busy being air brushed.

HOWEVER, since I've not yet had my first child it has scared the shit out of me. I don't want a bum on my belly and loads of horrible stretch marks but it seems that this is the only possible outcome (unless you are my lovely friend Ania who has no stretch marks and has gone back to the size she was before having 2 kids, if not smaller - please, dear god, let me have her genes too!!).

So, aside from panic about the fact that I've put on another 4 lbs over the

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On Friday I mentioned my husband's rude weight loss (half a stone in 2 weeks), which is clearly not on. On the other hand, it has reminded me that I need to pull myself together and stop eating everything in sight. I'm hoping most of the extra food is going to my boobs (or my 'page 3 boobs' and Mike has loving renamed them) given the number of comments I have received about them from friends over the last few days...however, I suspect this is not completely the case, so a healthy eating plan (note: not a diet, critics) complete with carrot sticks instead of chocolate hobnobs (my best friend, Alex, will be pleased. She's currently on a diet and takes great issue with the slow and savouring pace I use to eat anything yummy) is in order.

To give you a bit of background, I am an avid reader of

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As the second part of our Love, Hate, Avoid pregnancy diet, now we come to hate...As I mentioned previously, I'm with the NHS on most things and if they say there isn't scientific proof that something will harm baby, then the rule isn't going in my list of things to hate. It will probably go in my Avoid list, which is when you can make your own mind up. As a result this list isn't too long...

HATE

Unpasteurised dairy or some types of cheeses - I LOVE blue cheese, squidgy cheese, smelly cheese, etc. But it is all out of bounds. Now I have never become ill from eating cheese, and I mean never. However, IF you were to become ill from this type of cheeses or unpasteurised milk/dairy, you would be in big trouble (baby-wise), and for that reason I don't mind giving it up a jot. Plus, I also

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