Posts tagged NCT
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02 AugKaren’s Pregnancy Shoot
At our studio, we do a lot of pregnancy shoots, which I really enjoy. Having just been through it myself, I can appreciate what a special and beautiful time it is for a woman. Karen is one of the…
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08 JunThe Best £100 I ever spent
Today is a great day. Today I went to see Clare Byam-Cook, baby feeding specialist extraordinaire. If you type her name into Google, you quickly get the sense that Clare is the Marmite of the breastfeeding world; that is, either…
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16 MaySh*t! I forgot to play Mozart for my baby
I woke up today, nine days from my due date, and realised something: I forgot to play Mozart for my baby in utero. In fact, after watching a production of The Producers last week, I found myself singing “Springtime for…
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14 MayPreggo book round up: Second trimester
Ah! The golden second trimester. The time when you excitedly watch your bump grow and actually start to look pregnant. For me, it was when my worst symptoms, nausea, food avoidance and heightened sense of smell, actually started to dissipate.…
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04 MayWriting our birth plan (or options)
Now that the big day is getting closer, it’s time to put together the infamous Birth Plan, or Birth Options as our NCT instructor liked to call them, because the birth rarely goes to plan. Since watching the Water Babies…
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16 AprThe Big NCT Night Out
Everybody who goes to NCT classes has told me that one of the events you look forward to, as a group, is the first time you hang out socially (without teacher). Friday night was that night for us. The girls…
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27 MarStarting NCT classes
One thing I’ve been looking forward to for ages was starting my NCT classes. For those who don’t know, NCT stands for National Childbirth Trust and they offer classes to help prepare men and women for the experience of birth…
