In our latest post for Pregnancy Month, Fran from The Parent Social talks about how she kept a record of her pregnancies, and how she's carrying them on as her children grow up:
I kept a pregnancy diary during both of my pregnancies.
Now I update them with an entry annually on the children’s’ birthdays, but whilst pregnant (from just a few days after first finding out) I wrote in them every single day. Some days I wrote pages and other days just a couple of sentences.
I enjoyed noting down all the happy little details about the events of the pregnancy and my experiences. However, the diaries also served as a channel for writing about my many worries and neuroses. They were also just somewhere to ‘discuss’ the silly stuff; the minutiae that I didn’t want to bore others with. It was really cathartic and it felt great to write down what I was feeling.
What I wrote about in my pregnancy diaries:
• Twinges, funny symptoms, odd little symptoms – were they normal?
• Milestones – first feeling the baby move, first seeing a limb poke out, first hearing the heartbeat, first bout of baby hiccups
• How much I missed alcohol
• What I was eating and not eating. How I missed eating certain things, how I was fantasising about eating the bloodiest steak post delivery!!
• Scans and appointments – how everything was progressing, how big the babies were, what they were doing on the scan
• My day-to-day life – how it had changed and how it hadn’t changed (did I mention that I missed alcohol?)
• Scary stuff like a worrying nuchal fold reading for one of my twins on a scan and my subsequent preoccupation
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