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Pregnancy, Surviving lockdown

Pregnant and surviving lockdown – Day 3

Surviving lockdown at home. Well, there are certainly worse places to be. Waking up in with a roof over my head, running water and heating was certainly the highest on my gratitude list. I showered and dressed straight away and had a bowl of feel-good cereal. After doing my third load of washing and organising what my work commitments my look like for the next week, I felt pretty awesome. I opened the garden door to my very unkempt garden but breathed in deep the fresh morning air. Then I…

Pregnancy, Surviving lockdown

Pregnant and surviving lockdown – Day 2

Surviving lockdown is real. My first trimester was filled with nausea and extreme tiredness. If I’m honest, I might have even slept my way through the first few weeks. Now in my second trimester, I was excited that my energy levels were finally returning, and my heightened sense of smell finally diminishing. I had just breathed my first sigh of relief after the 12 week scan and was now finally feeling a bit more like myself. All my gym classes had been booked, work was booked, and my social…

Pregnancy, Surviving lockdown

Pregnant and surviving lockdown – Day 1

Surviving lockdown during coronavirus needn’t be as dramatic as it sounds. What was a rumbling in the East has now spread right across the world. We are facing a global public health crisis we have never seen before. Yesterday the government confirmed once again, the groups most at risk of coronavirus. The elderly, those with a compromised immune system, and for the first time pregnant women. I work as Doctor on the front line, a GP in the NHS. I am also expecting my first child. What should be…