Blooming Baby

So I shared a few maternity items I'm coveting but what about the all important baby buying! The thing all mothers seem to love is looking at all the teeny, tiny, cutie, kootchie items! How could you not, especially nowadays when online shopping is such a massive thing in most of our lives. How to absolutely drain your savings account in a few hours without moving your giant, whale-sized self from the sofa!

Organic Spotty Green Kimono Romper

£16.49 from Babipur

Buzzy Bee Envelope Top

Reduced to £11.05 from Frugi

Rabbit and Toadstool Bodysuit

£12.99 from Peter And Jane

Fawn Baby Blue

£17.00 from Inch Blue

I love that there are some really nice unisex items out there if you know where to look. The Rabbit & Toadstool bodysuit is from a gorgeous Danish company called Smafolk who make the most stunning retro-inspired items for kiddies. Frugi specialise in organics and do a lot of good work helping charities and trying to look after our environment. Not to mention the beautifully designed leather shoes by Inch Blue for your baby to be the envy of all of your friends, there are so many different designs I promise you will struggle to pin down just one that you want!

Bump & Glam

Most pregnant women I have spoken to just want to show off their bumps and why the hell not!! I have never felt more beautiful [yes, even with the sickness and other ailments!] than I do when I'm pregnant. What better way to show if off than some gorgeous maternity clothes. With Pandabear I held off buying maternity thinking I maybe wouldn't need them when if I'd just bought them earlier I'd have been able to get more wear out of them! So here's a few items I'm coveting!

Asos Maternity Bell Sleeve Shift Dress

Reduced to £14

Asos Maternity 3/4 Sleeve Wrap Top

Reduced To £20

JoJo Maman Bebe Navy & White Mini Dress

£29

I particularly love the mini dress and I think Mr BP would love it too!!

What They Don't Tell You!!

Why does it seem that every other pregnant woman in the world looks glam and is blooming perfect!!! It feels like I'm the only one who gets all the rubbish pregnancy symptoms instead of being one of the glowing, symptom-free pregnant women! Everyone I speak to just glides through their pregnancy with minor difficulty, I promised myself I would enjoy this pregnancy after having a rather difficult one with Pandabear. So far... not so good!

After hitting the Hyperemesis Gravidarum like I ran into a brick wall I was finally stabilised on some tablets which seem to be working! The downside... severe [I'm not talking bad but horrendous!] constipation. I mean a lot of pregnant women get constipation but this is way beyond that. It's been so severe that it's causing muscle spasms... down there! Ouch! I can only compare it to the pain of childbirth it is that severe and I laboured Pandabear without pain relief!! Fortunately I've been given some fantastic anaesthetic gel to help ease the pain but having not been able to sit down for the past two weeks is rather disrupting to my schedule! Fortunately Pandabear is in respite nursery care for three half days a week which makes a BIG difference and I don't know how I would manage without that little bit of rest. I better also mention the wonderful job that Mr BP has done looking after both myself and Pandabear, I really couldn't have gotten this far through the pregnancy without him.

Has anyone else had any strange or awful pregnancy related problems?

Well That's Just Blooming Perfect!

Well things are less perfect as they are blooming! The blooming part is the one bit I've had absolutely no trouble with this pregnancy!

Although it's such a great saying, such a polite way of saying so many things all at once. Whether said seriously and meaning something really is perfect or in a slightly more sarcastic way to exclaim that everything is very much less than perfect! I guess that's more how I've been feeling recently.

After suffering 9 weeks of Hyperemesis Gravidarum [before which I'd never heard of it!] I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. When someone mentions morning sickness I think more of my first pregnancy with Pandabear, I felt rough... sure, but then who doesn't? When I talk about hyperemesis to people and try to explain that it's a severe form of morning sickness I think they only hear the "morning sickness" words and nothing more.

Oh you just need to get up and get on with things, you'll feel better if you're doing something

Really? Feel better if I'm doing something? I've had 4 hospitalisations in the last 9 weeks for IV rehydration through being able to keep nothing down. Hyperemesis is really nothing like morning sickness, I've seen it described as "having food poisoning for weeks/months instead of hours" and I feel that definitely describes it more accurately.

As if my body felt that wasn't quite enough I then started bleeding heavily, threatening miscarriage at 15 weeks, I was told in careful thoughtful terms that if I were to labour they wouldn't be able to save little Noodle. Fortunately he seems to be hanging on in there so far. It's raw knees and crossed fingers for the time being, hoping to get to every milestone and see this pregnancy through.

Hopefully I'll start blooming in a more perfect fashion in the very near future!!