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 arriving back from holiday I was full of the vigour of someone who had over indulged and was ready for a bit of a detox, hence this post which had my list of dos and don'ts (pregnancy health and diet wise) going forward.

Things are going well so far (although I'm about to have some cheese cake!) and I've been getting back into my pregnancy exercises.

Today I wanted to talk about pregnancy nutrition. There are 9 essential vitamins needed during pregnancy and I've discussed the merits of Vitamin K in a post a few weeks ago. Next up is the Vitamin D pregnancy diet.

Vitamin D is essential in pregnancy for the healthy development of both us and our babies. It maintains (and develops in shorty) strong bones and teeth, and it's needed by muscles, nerves and the immune system. It is also linked to calcium in that it helps with the absorption of it

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