Today I am 7 weeks pregnant! I am completely recovered from the bug I caught... thankfully. And I feel great at the moment. No real symptoms, except tiredness.

I have my second scan tomorrow, fingers crossed everything goes well. Oh and I am off to Ireland on Thursday morning for Kate's confirmation.

I caught a tummy bug and have been ill since Tuesday. I won't go into detail but it has not been pleasant. Today I feel a bit better, thank God. I hope to be fully recovered for the weekend.

Today I found out that I should have a midwife as well as a doctor, so I have found and asked a nice Irish woman, who has been a midwife for 20 years now, and am hoping she will accept.

Updated: she has accepted and I am meeting her on the 14th March.

Last night was the first night I went out where I didn't drink or smoke. I was worried that people would figure out why but as it turns out, my excuse of having given it up for Lent worked like a charm and it just got everyone else talking about what they gave up. Perfect.

The only thing is that I was sitting among at least ten smokers, and it was awful, for three reasons:

1. I was passive smoking and worried about harming baby

2. I really wanted a cigarette being around them

3. All the smoke gave me a monstrous headache

In conclusion, I think I will be staying in more often from now on....