Random Ramblings of a Muslim Mum
A guest post by Umm Aasiya. Bismillah Pregnancy is a time where every mum wants to optimize her health. The well-being of baby is every mum’s concern. Generally, people think that taking a supplement containing all essential vitamins and minerals would be beneficial for us. However, there are only a few supplements which are recommended
I remember when I had my first child…..one question was what to pack in your hospital bag. I had an extra massive bag and ended up with so many things for my hospital bag, some which was barely used. Now on my third child, I am going with the saying ‘less is more’. We live
Well here we go again. After adamantly saying I was done with kids and quite content with my 14 year old and 8 year old girls….I will be delving back into the world of babies. I am pregnant and diabetic! By the 24th December I was almost 2 months late and I was convinced it
Just a very quick update for my followers! I was meant to go into hospital today for an induction. However when I rang they said no beds were available. So I had to ring again at 12. Still no beds available but they decided to just monitor the baby. A 20 minute monitoring took over
So today I am 38+3 and it looks like this will be my final week of pregnancy. I am booked into hospital on Thursday to be induced. I have to ring at 8am to check bed availability and they will then tell me when I need to go in. Apparently they have a lot of
Ok so with my sweep in less than a week and also a possible induction, I am not ashamed to admit I am freaking out. I am not very good with examinations and am praying like mad that this baby decides to make an early appearance before the midwifes start interfering with me……as I know
I am now officially full term alhamdulillah! Scary stuff!! The 9 months, even with the gestational diabetes have flown by. I had my final appointments at the diabetic clinic last week. My consultant was on holiday so someone was covering – so I didn’t think I would get the answers I wanted. However, the consultant
So today I am 35 weeks alhamdulillah and am sitting here thinking where has the time gone???? I only have 5 weeks left till my due date! Scary stuff. So the week before last I went to see my community midwife. She has decided that because I am now being seen by the hospital every