What I am looking forward to on November 13th

Probably the only good thing for me about having a planned caesarean (I explained why I have to have one in my first birth story HERE and my second HERE) is that my birth date has been set. On November the 13th, I will become a mother to a new [...]

2019-04-24T11:05:06+10:00August 8, 2017|

Advice on juggling two children

I firstly have to apologise for the slow down of blog posts over the last couple of weeks. I have still been unwell and very tired with this pregnancy, however to top it off, it has been school holidays which means I pretty much have no day-time to work. As [...]

2019-04-24T11:05:52+10:00July 11, 2017|

Recapping my pregnancy at 20 weeks so far

20 points about my pregnancy so far, third time around, compared to the first and second times. 1. I have had all day morning sickness from five weeks which includes fatigue, vomiting, nausea, hardly eating, hardly drinking and not being able to exercise at all for 5 months. 2. My [...]

2019-04-24T11:06:10+10:00July 5, 2017|

The day I found out I was pregnant

The day I found out I was pregnant It was 7am when I was sitting on the toilet doing my, well, morning wee. Josh was in front of me brushing his teeth in our too-small-for-four-people bathroom. I had expected my period to arrive this morning and it took me a [...]

2019-04-24T11:06:20+10:00June 25, 2017|

Morning sickness explained

Don't let the title fool you, firstly, let me explain what 'morning' sickness means: All day, every hour and minute until you go to sleep and sometimes in your sleep and then you wake up and it starts again sickness. The End. Imagine that scrolling on Instagram made you queasy, [...]

2019-04-24T11:07:12+10:00May 28, 2017|

What to expect being a mother of boys

From the moment Aston was born, I knew more about boys than girls. I immediately was faced with tackling, well, the tackle, a small little thing that for some reason enjoyed squirting me in the face during nappy changes. A quick call out to all the mums-of-boys on face book, [...]

2019-04-24T11:08:03+10:00March 19, 2017|

School so far

So, I thought it was about time to introduce myself, yep, you heard me, my title has changed and I am officially known as Mrs Jessica Dempsey, School Mum! Agh! School Mum! So far, life as a school mum has been pretty good. I can say that since Aston started [...]

2019-04-24T11:08:46+10:00February 20, 2017|

What they didn’t tell you about child birth

As I mentioned in my post the other week (HERE: what they didn't tell you about pregnancy) I thought I would continue this series with: 'What they didn't tell you about birth.' I might keep this one brief as I am definitely not an expert on every single unique child birth that [...]

2019-04-24T11:09:06+10:00February 12, 2017|
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