things I enjoyed doing while pregnant

1. Going for walks, swimming and yoga

2. Keeping a written or audio journal

3. Meditating lots - not feeling guilty for relaxing

4. Writing a book for your daughter

5. Your husband making sketches or writing poems for your daughter

6. Making yourself a long pregnancy pillow

7. Chilling in the bath or shower with candles and incense

8. Rubbing your tummy with coconut oil after a bath/shower

9. Chilling on the bed when you get home from work and not feeling guilty you aren't making supper :)

The few things that weren't great:

1. Heartburn during a conference at week 5 (Sept 6th onward) which lead to hectic nausea. But once I got my small meals back and gavascon I was sorted. Some bad heartburn here and there at the start of the third trimester from eating rubbish.

2. Sore hips from lying on my side. Problem mostly solved by massaging with a tennis ball. Just uncomfortable lying on the floor with Beth pushing on my bowls

3. Dizzy when doing Sun Salute yoga routine during the first trimester

4. Relatively tired during the first trimester but nothing compared to gluten

5. Twice having terrible pain like a bad stitch in my lung cavity during the first trimester

6. My tummy feeling very full (especially if I over drank and ate at supper) resulting in me feeling claustrophobic

Antenatal classes

http://just-engage.com/

Yoga for pregnant ladies

Great 10 minute videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B87FpWtkIKA

Recommended books

DURING PREGNANCY

1. Healthy Pregnancy in a Box - Annie Lawler

By my third trimester I struggled to switch off and meditate, so this 30 minute medication helped. Maybe it was just your dad always distracting me and wanting to play :-)

2. What to expect when you are expecting

A good reference book

3. Hypnobirthing

A good book about natural child birthing. Nice CD to help meditate

4. Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives - Deepak Chopra

A very extensive good, but great to have a holistic look at birthing

5. Just-engage.com antenatal classes

Raising kids

1. Sleep sense and Baby sense

Some great info tables in the first on to guide new parents

2. How Eskimo's keep their baby warm - Mei-Ling Hopegood

A great look at how different cultures deal with babes…a great challenge to what you think is the norm

3. Brain Rules for Babies - John Medina

A bit more info then we expected, but some useful chapters