THIS TIME LAST YEAR I FOUND OUT I WAS PREGNANT.

Let me set the scene for you. It was a Wednesday afternoon
and I was on my way home from a job interview at a local Doctors surgery when
the question ‘where the heck is my period?’ suddenly popped into my head. At
this point I didn’t think too much of it as the week prior I’d been taking
Norethisterone which is a period delaying tablet I was using to make sure I
wouldn’t be on my period on my wedding day - There’s enough stress when it
comes to your wedding day & quite frankly I didn’t want Aunt Flo adding to
the pressure!

I remember at the time of my Doctors consultation to get the
drug, I was advised It may take a little while for my period to come back after
finishing the course of tablets, but for the life of me I couldn’t remember how
long she’d said. So for my own peace of mind I swung by the supermarket on the
way home & picked up a couple of pregnancy tests.

Now I’ve been in this situation before, on quite a few
occasions to be honest & they all went a little bit like this… My period
would be late, I’d get my hopes up, pee on a stick that came back negative
& then there’d be tears and I’d be in a mood for the rest of the day. I wouldn’t
like to know how many pregnancy tests I’d taken over the previous three years
however it was enough for me to expect this one to come back negative &
enough for me to not get upset over it any more.

You can only imagine my face when those two blue lines
appeared.

I was in a state of disbelief & was so glad I’d bought
two tests so I could do the second one before Dan got home just to be double
sure. The stupid thing is that over the following week I’d end up taking six
pregnancy tests – We just couldn’t believe it! Turns out sextuple times sure is
the magic number!

We kept the pregnancy a secret between the two of us for a
couple of weeks before telling both sets of parents a week or so before the
wedding… Turns out a good way to take the pressure off getting married, is to
have a baby! All wedding worries were well and truly thrown out of the window
at this point because even though your wedding day is super important, for us it
was nothing in the grand scheme of things of what was to come!

So here we are exactly 365 days later, and what a year it’s
been! I’m sure we’ve gone from 2018 to 2019 in the blink of an eye. I’ve now
got a husband & a child who is very quickly approaching being four months
old – It’s actually crazy how much difference a year makes & I can’t wait
to see what changes this year brings.

What were you doing this time last year?

Claire.X


Have you read my previous pregnancy posts?
The First Trimester.
The Second Trimester.
The Third Trimester.