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Middleclass parents are spending anything between £5,000 and £50,000 on their offspring’s birthday celebrations, according to a British newspaper report.
Frankly, we at pregnant-pauses.com don’t believe it. The Daily Mail reported Tuesday that “middleclass parents” were splashing out to give their kids a “lifetime experience”.

Our fellow plane passengers are bustling forward the moment the hostess announces the start of boarding.
Luckily, we’ve already waddled our way to the front. I have developed a sympathy waddle, which is necessary because otherwise I walk too fast for Lucy. Together we look like a couple of penguins out for a stroll.

Thump, thump, thump. Oonce, oonce, oonce. Thump, thump, thump; We must be at the right age to have a child because the music (that’s a generous word) from downstairs is driving us nuts.
We’ve been circling the lounge all day yelling at each other: “I think it’s getting louder. It’s getting louder isn’t it?”

Sometimes you just know something isn’t quite right. I’m in the middle of a 40-minute run when I first feel tense.
Lucy is at her regular appointment with the midwife, which normally means a 45 minute wait, blood tests, blood pressure check, a quick chat about her increasing girth and varicose veins, before being told she [...]

Surveys about pregnant women and alcohol are enough to drive even teetotal mums-to-be to drink.
Cast your mind back six months or so. Remember the story that said women who drank occasionally while pregnant were less stressed and had happier babies?

Hot on the heels of the Peekaroo - an abomination in fleece - comes the Easy Expression Bra, a hands-free device designed to make the lactating woman feel like a dairy cow.
These bras, which come in sexy strapless or foxy halterneck styles, are designed to work with electric breast pumps.

Lucy is on the phone to her parents. She sounds nervous; I feel very faint.
The faintness is coming from the pit of my stomach and feels like it’s getting stronger with each passing second.

The women at the drycleaner’s think I’m having a boy, as does the grocery delivery man and the receptionist at work.
My mother is adamant it’s going to be a girl - even though she lives 12,000 miles away and hasn’t even seen me since I got pregnant.

Some women miss the sensation of being pregnant after they give birth - they feel robbed of the close bond they had with their baby when it was still in utero.
Now, there’s a creepy way to recreate that snuggly feeling - in polar fleece. The Peekaroo is a strong contender for the Creepy Baby Kit [...]

What is in a name? Often clearly not a lot of thought, nor care for a child’s future sanity. 
News that celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and his wife, Jools, have named their third child after another type of flower has had our relatives shooting off some suggestions for our impending arrival.