Hello lovelies! If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen that this week I went shopping in order to start packing my hospital bag! As I mentioned in my last blogpost I am planning a home birth but I still have to pack a hospital bag just incase and it's handy to know I have everything I'll need in the one place anyway regardless of where I am. I will admit I found this slightly difficult to do because I saw tonnes of different checklists on what to pack and they all seemed to be different in some way or another so I kind of custom made my own by pulling things from several different checklists and listening to advice from other mamas. So I'm going to pop the checklist that I followed below and then underneath that I'll show you all what I have packed so far with some details about some of the more interesting items! Also I have seen that a lot of the lists recommend two bags - one for labour and one for after labour. I didn't get two bags, pur
Hello Lovelies! I hope you are all well! I know I have been a little quiet for the past few weeks, you'll probably understand why after reading this! I have just started my 28th week of pregnancy which means I am officially in my third trimester now so I thought it was the perfect time to let you all know how I got on in my second trimester. I have recently had a surge of pregnant mamas contact me on my instagram page and I think it's so important for us all to share our pregnancy experiences because even though to a certain degree we are all in the same boat, every womans pregnancy is different. I think when I started to understand that I didn't focus too much on what I thought should or shouldn't be happening to me and just focused on enjoying this experience. (20 Weeks Pregnant) The second trimester of pregnancy lasts from the beginning of week 13 to the end of week 27 and is known to be the best trimester of pregnancy because by this stage your sickness