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One Year

In an effort to apologise but also seem like I totally have a lot going on in my life, and I meant to miss the date, I have decided to backdate this post to the actual date of my one year blog anniversary. As determined by my first published post on tis blog, anyway. The actual date f creation I forgot, along with the first few posts which I may have deleted when all changed and I decided to ‘openly’ blog using my first name. Anyway, happy blog anniversary to me and Sharnie.co.uk! 🎉

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Pregnancy/TTC

No Gender Reveals Here

Instead of plugging my own content by making an exciting ‘the gender is…’ title, I’ve decided I can’t help being a bit more honest. Yes, we found out the gender of our almost 21 week gestational age baby! But no, we won’t be disclosing that here or anywhere else to…

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Education

OMG! OMV! No.

One of my favourite YouTubers – partly because of my ambition to work in assisted reproduction, and everything health-related to the female body and reproduction, and partly because I’m a woman who wants to know about these things for myself – is Mama Doctor Jones. US-based obstetrician and gynaecologist (OBGyn),…

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Pregnancy/TTC

19 Weeks + 3 Days

Apart from my reflagging of CC’s wonderful Elvie review – click here to read it, it’s definitely worth a look if you’re considering a discrete pump but are worried about that £250 price tag – I haven’t really updated in a week or so. As it’s time for a life…

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Product

Elvie Breast Pump Review — Clever C(nt)s

I was very excited when I saw two pumps on the market that advertised being cordless and silent. What a brilliant idea! A pump that could fit in your bra and use on the go. Despite the rather painful price tag (the Elvie markets at around £250 for a single…

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Pregnancy/TTC

5 First Trimester Must-Haves

I am around 16 weeks pregnant – I never imagined I’d get here! It’s all gone so incredibly fast. As a second trimester mum-to-be I definitely found some of the tips bombarding me on the internet useful and downright necessary to live life in the first third of pregnancy. I…

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Career

Life After Job Loss

Did I ask for this? No. Did I want to be a stay-at-home Mum? One day. Can we afford it? Possibly. After losing my job a few weeks ago due to Covid-19’s lockdowns ending the tourist season before it even began, via a 4 week notice (technically I’m ending in…

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Don’t be fooled by this healthy looking smoothie. It is healthy BUT... 🫐🍌🍇🥛 I ate a big cinnamon bagel with butter before making this, so this is not bragging a “healthy” diet or weight loss idea 😂 i was wayyyy too full after. I just loved these photos and trying to have more of my fruits and veggies today 👍🏻 #pregnancycravings #pregnant #ttcuk #ukttc #ttcsuccess #22weekspregnant #pregnantfoodie #foodie #smoothie #health A perfect scan photo after our poor one last time!!! 💕 20 week scan complete! Such a lovely sonographer was so nice, no problems at all with baby 🍼 She did however notice a fibroid (!) above the placenta at the front of my uterus, which isn’t a concern she said but she just wanted me to know. I’ve read the NHS guide on fibroids and am okay with it, but it’s still a bit concerning if I end up producing more 🤔 fertility could be affected I don’t know. Should I be worried?? #fibroid #ttcuk #ukttc #ttcsuccess #pregnant #pregnancy #20weekscan #20weekspregnant Anomaly scan on Wednesday 🤞🏻 The 20 week scan where we might find out the gender, and anything wrong (praying for nothing) with our baby. I’ve had to recruit family to take J and I to the scan this time as my bump won’t fit on the back of the bike anymore 🏍😆 masks and sitting in the back seat - what else can we do? I’m nervous but excited, and trying to think of just seeing the little figure of a baby inside me on the screen again. Everything is so surreal I can’t believe I’m this far along. Felt a few movements I think, but still hard to tell ☺️ banishing nerves - positive thoughts!!! #ttcsuccess #ttcuk #ukttc #pregnant #20weekspregnant #pregnancy #20weekscan Baby has more clothes than me!👕🧦 This is less than half the clothes we’ve been gifted/bought in bundles, and I ran out of hangers. Gender clothing is included even though we don’t know the gender, some secondhand bits were sent which happened to be blue! To be honest I don’t care, and would happily put a girl in blue or vice versa. 20 week anomaly scan coming up in literally a weeks time!! Yes, we hope to find out gender but no, we won’t be telling anyone! This is because J can’t be there for some later growth scans and I’m terrified I’ll see ‘something’ without him there. How gutting would it be to have to tell him I found out without him? So we will find out and keep it our little secret ☺️ #19weekspregnant #babyclothes #babysroom #nursery #20weekscan #scan #ttcsuccess 19 weeks! 🥰 one week until our 20 week anomaly scan. So excited! J and I have decided we will find out the gender if we can because he’s allowed in for this scan, and I have other growth scans later due to my health he can’t come into - I don’t want to accidentally see anything without him there. 🍼 We won’t be telling a soul though if we can help it 🤫 TMI but anyone else got an overdrive of cervical mucus at this point?! I swear I’m using up all the toilet paper in this house 😅😬 baby bump is well on the way but haven’t had the guts to post properly only one quick story! Going to see if I can get some maternity gear and then take a nice pic for the page somehow. Feeling the love tonight 💕 still no baby movements felt though.. kind of feel a bit disconnected from baby also. But hoping that will change at our scan 🙃 anyone else feel like that? #pregnant #pregnancy #ukpregnancy #19weekspregnant #anomalyscan #scan Yesterday was Doppler day 💓 I saw my midwife and almost teared up when she eventually found the heartbeat. I was so nervous and it felt like she took ages to find it! But she did and I was so shocked at how strong you could hear it. That’s my baby 😍. Hoping your heart is better made than mine!! 😅 My only wish was that J could have been there too to hear it. I even heard them move and kick out with the Doppler and I can’t feel a thing yet. Anxiety relieved - for now haha. Thank you everyone who commented last time and helped me. 18 weeks tomorrow. 🥰 #pregnant #pregnancy #18weekspregnant #ttcsuccess #doppler #scan #midwife #heartbeat #anxiety