Yikes!! I’m pregnant and having another baby!
I announced my pregnancy a few weeks ago now over on Instagram : but thought I would share it here too as I know some people are just blog readers and don’t venture over to instagram much (I don’t blame you tbh!) So YES, I am pregnant and we are expecting our second child later on this year / late summer.
It’s something I am of course SUPER excited about… and so grateful it happened for us again…and that has been mixed in with feelings of WTF!.. What am I doing? Can we afford this? HOW are we going to make this work in our teeny tiny house!?…. Which I think is all natural thoughts and feelings. We know we just have to roll with it and make it work! I feel like so many of us have these worries alongside the happiness but we don’t like to talk about that side of things so much – but YES, feeling very anxious and worried is totally normal too…I hope.
This time around I am high-risk (for a few reasons including my age! I’m 41) so with that I will have more appointments and scans than the first time around, but I’m ok with that and it’s nice to get the extra check-in’s and support.
So far, the pregnancy has been quite tough in terms of how I’ve been feeling : I got VERY sick in trimester 1, I also had covid AND a few problems with my now-nearly-5-year old in terms of behaviour and sleeping so I’ve been quite tired and sleep deprived…even more so than a normal pregnancy. So this has been a little bit of a ride but I’m definitely feeling much better in Trimester 2. Hopefully onwards and up!
I had quite a traumatic birth with my daughter Margot, so of course I have been feeling quite anxious about that side of things, but have been getting extra support from my midwife about that. You can read all about my birth story here, but be warned it’s not very nice and not a ‘positive birth story’ although, of course, with a positive outcome!
I’m not sure if it’s normal for a second pregnancy but I’ve been A LOT more relaxed about it in terms of…...well I keep forgetting I’m actually pregnant! Maybe because I almost couldn’t quite come to terms with it or believe it, so it almost has felt it’s not happening (besides the sickness!) and it’s only when the bump started coming that I was like ‘OHhhhhh I really am pregnant’…I definitely feel and probably look pregnant now. It’s very exciting!
I think my daughter, Margot will be a brilliant big sister and although she cannot understand the concept (she is autistic/non-verbal) I’m sure she will maybe start to understand as I become bigger and hopefully her understanding will be a little better by the time the baby is nearly here. I have two siblings and I think I had always imagined having at least 2 or 3 children as I enjoyed growing up with brothers! (PS there will not be a third! ha ha )
In terms of finding out the gender…I think we probably will (we did with Margot) as I just like to prepare a bit..so we shall see! In the meantime I am enjoying second trimester energy and planning how we move around the house to accommodate for a a baby! It’s going to be a tight squeeze but I know we will somehow make it work.
In the meantime I’m grabbing the trimester 2 energy by the horns and trying to get things done in terms of work, house & organising!
