WEEK 33

Maria receives the results from the blood test at last week’s hospital check The diagnosis is that she is short of iron and needs to adjust her diet. This amuses me as Maria is a vegetarian and has one of the healthiest diets I’ve ever seen. Still, more fruit and veg can do no one any harm I guess.

Onto the shopping list go watercress, dried apricots, figs and even more wholemeal bread. I jokingly suggest that she has the odd pint of Guinness to wash it all down. Maria smiles and curtly replies: "I don’t think so."

She is resolutely keeping her exercise regime up, even though her advanced stage of pregnancy dictates that her beloved gym and aerobics sessions are now out of the question.

Many lengths of the health club’s 20-metre pool are the only form of exertion possible. This is no hardship for Maria, as she has always enjoyed her swimming.

Being not such a water baby myself, she thankfully doesn’t insist on me keeping her company.

Ahh, now where’s that TV remote control…

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