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Fears and feelings on COVID-19 pandemic

Tracksuit pants, endless cups of tea, Netflix binges, and napping with my baby – Life in isolation from Coronavirus, or COVID-19, on a day-to-day basis isn’t all that different from my life as a mum on maternity leave, but with a crushing weight of anxiety and a whole heap of life disruption sprinkled (or, rather – poured heavily) on top.

We’ve all been affected one way or another by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Either you’re self-isolating to help flatten the curve of the outbreak and keep others safe (Or you’re refusing to do so, complaining that your football has been cancelled, protesting that this has all gone “too far” and think it’s all a bunch of bullshit – in which case: You, my friend, are bullshit).

You or someone you love may be in actual quarantine with symptoms or following exposure to the virus. You may be working from home or unable to work at all. Your children may not be able to attend school or nursery.

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6 Weeks Postpartum Update

I’ve finally gotten around to editing and posting this postpartum update I filmed when I was 6 weeks postpartum (Sorry it took so long, but I was kinda busy being a new mum to a newborn baby, funnily enough).

It goes without saying that the postpartum time can be HARD. It certainly was for me – more mentally than physically – and I’m sure it is for many other mums across the globe.

I hope sharing a little bit of what my postpartum time was like helps others who may be in a similar situation.

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My Top 10 Pregnancy Essentials

Pregnancy is a complete mash-up of a time. On the one hand, it’s absolutely amazing – I mean, you’re growing a human being! And it’s also really hard – I mean, YOU’RE GROWING A HUMAN BEING!

As such, there are some things that can make your pregnancy experience easier and more comfortable, or at least take the edge off some of the more problematic pregnancy symptoms.

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Nursery Tour! Our secondhand, towards zero waste set up

I thought I’d show you around what we’ve got set up for baby’s “nursery”.

I say “nursery” tentatively because really all their ‘stuff’ is stored in our spare room whilst baby will be sleeping in our room for the first six months at least anyway.

For us, lowering our waste and environmental impact is really important, so this comes into the set up a lot – from all the secondhand purchases we made over buying new where we could, to our cloth nappy stash that we hope to use from birth, we’ve tried our hardest to make bringing a child into this world as low-impact as we can (but, of course, we know there is always room for improvement!).

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What’s in my Hospital Bag?

My bag and the bag for baby that we’ll be taking to the hospital

Since I am getting rather close to giving birth, I thought I would share with you my packing list for my hospital bag.

I really enjoy watching these kinds of videos on YouTube myself of late, so I thought I would make one of my own.

NOTE: We’re aiming for a Birth Centre delivery attached to a Hospital, using Hypnobirthing, and with a mindset towards low waste.

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Babymoon in the Welsh Countryside

As I hit my third trimester of my pregnancy (and we came to the end of the mammoth and stressful task that had been applying for me to stay in the UK on a Family Visa) Dan and I decided we should have a little weekend away to relax, and enjoy some time ‘just us’ before baby joins us.

We booked a gorgeous little AirBnB nearby Raglan, in Wales, which for us was roughly an hour’s drive from our home in Bristol.

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