I cannot believe that I am sitting here writing this post. It feels surreal because I never thought this day would come. But, as you can probably see from the title of this post, I am pregnant.
If you have read my site before, you may know that our journey to get to this stage has not been straight forward. Over 10 years ago, before I was 20 years old, I was told by my doctor that I was deemed infertile. At the time, I was advised that if I wanted to have children of my own naturally, that to come off contraception and start trying for a family. At that age, it was the furthest thing from my mind and the news didn’t really affect me that much.
However, as I got older the thought of never having children hit me like a ton of bricks. For many years, I acted like I didn’t want children as a defense mechanism, but I yearned to become a mother. At some point, I will delve into the journey to me getting pregnant and how this came to be. But for today, I just wanted to come online and share the news that I am expecting. I cannot believe that I am pregnant. Just typing the words seems surreal. I am pregnant!
Currently, I am around 22 weeks pregnant. We decided to wait until the 20-week mark before sharing the news with our friends and family. Just because of the uncertainty around my ability to maintain the pregnancy. We wanted to ensure that we were well in the safe zone before sharing the news and getting up everybody’s hopes. So, after taking some time to enjoy everybody’s happiness, it seemed a good time to share the news online.
So, throughout this journey, I am going to be sharing with you everything. The things that at I experience, feel and come up against. So far, my pregnancy has been a little rocky, I will share more about that later. That is far overshadowed by the gratitude that I feel. Pregnant and writing this post for you today is a dream.
