Daddy or Chips?

It's pretty amazing how one comment can set the tone for the whole day.  Just recently, I have been feeling pretty damn huge in terms of my size. In my head, I know that's because I'm 31 weeks pregnant and not because I'm shovelling millions of calories into my body, but with the combined effects of back ache, the inability to get off...

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So, after putting it off for literally months I finally got my hands on the Bounty Mum to Be Pack. It's a free pack that purports to be "stuffed with try-before-you-buy samples, plus lots of money off coupons" and is available from Boots, ASDA or Superdrug with a voucher found in some Pregnancy Information Folders that you get from your midwife. If, like...

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I've done a separate post reviewing the Mum-to-Be Pack as a whole, but I felt the need to do a separate post on the 'Gift Certificates' that are included in the pack, offering you a massive plethora of items purportedly for free.  Do not be fooled by these bad boys. I got as excited as you would expect me to when it looked...

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So I am now 31 weeks pregnant. I'm in single figures in terms of weeks until he's going to get here and as someone who always used to think she'd never have a baby, this has been a real learning curve for me. Here are the things that Wes and me have learned over the last 31 weeks or so that have surprised...

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DISCLAIMER: This isn't going to be a light-hearted, fun post. Sorry. So, Wes and I are in the middle of a saga right now and at the moment it revolves around the issue of paternity leave and the fact that, despite being told that his workplace are 'flexible with parents' he isn't even allowed parternity leave. Not even by law. In February this...

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Welcome to Daddy or Chips! However you stumbled here, hello. I won’t bore you with an essay on my life so far and events leading up to getting to write a blog, because that’s not interesting. Instead, I’ll pick out a few facts about us and the most important bits you should know before trawling through the rest of the site. The basic...

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