The next 3 weeks were amazing, the sickness started settling down as I went into the second trimester, at 13 weeks I started to feel the tiniest little flutters of movement which in itself was madness, I didn’t feel the girls until much later in the pregnancies, another thing that made me think it was a boy. Even the S.P.D started to settle down!
I had my gestational diabetes test and that came back negative I still felt very faint and the heart palpitations were still happening but it was easier to deal with when everything else was settling down.
My rage was strong, I felt myself becoming very easily irritated and that was horrible but it just meant that my hormones were going in the right direction, right?
On December 1st we went and done all our Christmas shopping, we loved it, we talked to Boris all the way around the shops – telling him how amazing next Christmas would be, we would know if he was a boy or girl and we’d go crazy over the top with presents for a six month old baby who wouldn’t even know what was happening, but we’d do it anyway because that’s what you do for baby’s first Christmas! I honestly felt so content, our family was turning out just perfect!
On December 7th we had Nathan’s works Christmas party, I wore the same dress I had worn when I was pregnant with Paisley, it felt so nice to be wearing it again and Boris looked perfect! It was a really nice evening, everyone asked after the pregnancy and wished us well, I’m not good at being the centre of attention (far to self conscious) unless I’m pregnant and you want to talk about the baby, then I love it! Pregnancy gives me a confidante I just don’t have naturally. We didn’t stay out too late, it was nice to get out together and get dressed up, I felt so beautiful, another thing that only happens when I’m pregnant!
December 9th, my annual girlie Christmas meal, another chance to get dressed up and show off my beautiful bump! I wore a different dress that night, one I’d never worn before. Once again Boris looked perfect. My friend came to pick me up, she is also pregnant so we were sticking together as the non drinkers! The chef had cooked extra Brussels sprouts for us preggosauruses as that was our craving! Everyone commented on how big I was, Tegenn is five weeks ahead of me but I looked months ahead of her! I pranced about so happy that night, showing off my bump to the world!
Something still wasn’t right though, over this 3 week period of bliss I kept saying to Nathan that something just didn’t feel right, I almost didn’t feel pregnant anymore but I looked very pregnant and I wasn’t bleeding it didn’t make sense, I couldn’t put my finger on it but something was definitely amiss.
I had my juniper midwife (mental health midwife) appointment on the 13th of December and I was going to ask if they could having a early listen to the baby’s heartbeat, just to put my mind at rest…….
Nayely Adelpha Foundation 