pregnancy
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Shooting my mouth off
I learned a valuable lesson today. I think. Don’t agree to be interviewed whilst pregnant and highly hormonal/grumpy. I was asked by the Al Jazeera news team if they could come over to interview me for a piece they were doing about disability. My knee-jerk was a definite ‘no’, which I assumed on reflection, was…
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“I’d have given you the post, but you’re pregnant”
Pregnancy should be a magical, special time. Magical, that is, unless you’re one of the unlucky 2 per cent of women who develop hyperemesis gravidarum, an extreme form of all-day sickness and nausea in pregnancy. Sickness aside, the months of growing a baby inside you and the time after enjoying your little one should be…
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My journey with Hyperemesis Gravidarum
I’ve decided to do a one-off blog about my journey with Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Maybe this could be deemed as pretty self-indulgent and maybe it is, but it’s been so horrendous, it’s all I can think about. That and counting down the days left until I meet my little girl (154, give or take). I’m one…