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    my bubba turning two, I'm
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    downright adorable.
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  • July 9, 2014

    UP THE DUFF Week 33: The best bits of advice ever for a mum to be.

    By Rachel on July 9, 2014

    Question: How do you make a heavily pregnant woman cry? Answer: Have everyone she loves add their snippet of new mum advice to a beautiful baby shower book - which is just what I was given last weekend

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  • July 2, 2014

    UP THE DUFF Week 32: Nursery must-haves?

    By Rachel on July 2, 2014

    We're on the reno home-stretch and while I'd like to say that by Friday onwards I will be sitting on my arse in my new house contemplating my (very round) navel, there's still one massive job left to do. The nursery.

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  • June 25, 2014

    UP THE DUFF Week 31: A letter to my unborn chicklet.

    By Rachel on June 25, 2014

    Dearest baby chicklet, you're due in just over two months. Once upon a time, it was nine months. Now, there's really not long to wait until we can cuddle you for real.

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  • June 18, 2014

    UP THE DUFF Week 30: Teaspoon toilet stops.

    By Rachel on June 18, 2014

    While I’ve spared you some of the most bizarre, pregnancy-related lady garden weirdness, I can’t keep quiet any longer about my ridiculous bladder. One day last week I went nearly 22 times. I counted, because it was so ludicrous. I can be standing in a shop feeling fine, only for the chicklet to think it would be really funny...

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  • June 11, 2014

    SP | UP THE DUFF Week 29: The hairy topic of fertility post-35.

    By Rachel on June 11, 2014

    There were times I thought I'd never get pregnant and there are still times where I have to pinch myself that it IS happening. Because, at 40, you're never quite sure if you'll be lucky or one of the many older wannabe mums who tragically misses out because of age,

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Hi! I’m Rachel…

me charlie in the sun ... and this is my sweet bubba Charlie. Hope you'll stick around as I chronicle everything from the cute to the batshit-crazy moments of first-time motherhood!

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