A little bit from what i wrote before.

I have been looking back at my posts from the beginning and i found this post about what my plan was for when i get pregnant and thought i would post the points and see what i have stuck with and what i havnt and why.

• From 12 weeks i will start to tell people, i plan on having a shirt made with an oven on it with a bun (or more if that is the case) in it.
• I did start telling people when i thought i was 12 weeks but it turned out i wasnt quite there, i did wear a t-shirt with a bun and an oven on it to work on the last day before i broke up for xmas. I also wore a few other novely t-shirts at other points in my pregnancy.
• I don't want to know what I'm having as i really don't mind what we have as long as they are fit and healthy. (unless we do have a multiple due to the clomid but i would have to reconsider)
• I was very tempted to find out what i was having but i didnt, i felt i knew i was having a girl from the start, there was the odd time when i thought it was going to be a boy but if im 100% honest i just knew deep down.
• i would like a water birth with minimal intervention (* i will explain below)
• This was still my plan right up until i was admitted to hospital then i found out i wouldnt be allowed a water birth because of the pre-eclampsia. Then i ended up having the EMCS which ment the calm quiet stress and drug free birth turned into quite a bit of drama with drugs obviously but as long as charlotte was safe that was all that mattered. 
• after the birth and i take the baby home i will refuse to carry my baby in a car seat. (** see below)
• I stood by this one apart from once when she was having problems sleeping so i put her in the carseat and she slept through but i hated myself for doing it. I never got the adapters to put the carseat on my pram because i knew i didnt want to keep her in it so i had the carry cot and the seat and i have done really well with this point, she is not in the baby seat very much anymore, its only when she goes in adams car, my das car or a friends car, most of the time she is in my moms car so she is in her big girl seat which is a lot better seat position.
• my baby will be carried using a sling/ carrier/ wrap as much as we can. (***)
• I have carried charlotte quite a lot in her carrier but she was about 6-7 weeks old when she was big enough to go in it because she was so little i didnt feel safe carrying her, maybe if i had got a wrap i would have felt more comfortable. I still put her in the carrier sometimes but its not so often anymore as she is getting a little bit heavy for my back and my boobs get squished lol.
• my baby will be fed on breast milk. (****)
• My logic for this one was that breast mild was better for baby and i wanted to breastfeed and save money but after finding out that breastfeeding wasnt working and charlotte lost too much weight i was stressed and couldnt express so i did what i had to and put charlotte on formula.
• most of all my baby will wear cloth nappies, i have researched different brands and have heard they are as good if not better than disposable ones. (*****)
• I did try cloth nappies but i dont know if its just charlottes shape, the quality of the nappies or that i wasnt doing it right they all leaked and i just couldnt stick to it, i do wish it had worked like with the breastfeeding.
• finally my child will hate me by the age of 1 as they will have their whole life documented from first signs of a bump to videos of bump movement (if we are lucky) to having at least one photo per day to capture their lives.
• This is very true apart from the picture everyday, i get most days but not everyday, i did for the first few months and do try but i dont always get around to it. I did manage to get a few videos of my bump and i took plenty of pictures during my pregnancy.

I actually wrote this back in july 2010 while i was with my ex and after a failed cycle of clomid.