Downs and ups......

Don't get me wrong! Finding out I was pregnant was the best thing in the whole world, but it wasn't without its worries and stresses, ups and downs, illnesses and good times!

During the first trimester I suffered very badly with morning sickness, however the sickness wasn't exclusive to the morning! I found that I would suffer with it... morning... noon and night. The most vivid memory I have was going out to a Christmas party with friends, sat in the Shire Horse pub sipping my orange juice feeling my stomach doing somersaults, this was about 7 'o' clock at night. I was dreading going to the restaurant because I felt so bad, but putting on a brave face, we left the pub and walked across the car park, suddenly my stomach decided it didn't like what I'd had for lunch and without a toilet in sight I lunged for the nearest hedge! Needless to say, I didn't eat a lot in the restaurant, and my £15 all you can eat buffet consisted of glasses of water, cucumber, tomatoes and a bowl of Jelly (Not together)!

Cravings! Following the night at the 'all you can eat' my body then turned to cravings, prior to this night, all I had wanted was Sprite! I'd never been a Sprite drinker before but I couldn't get enough of it. After the Christmas party all I wanted was Cucumber and Tomatoes! I would make Andy take me to Tesco and buy a whole cucumber, by the time we'd left the car park I would have consumed at least half of it! I could sit and eat a whole punnet of Tomatoes! I later found out that tomatoes are a good source of vitamin A which helps bone development and eyesight, so could only put it down to that!


Amazingly when I hit 12 weeks, the sickness stopped... just disappeared and I felt fantastic, my jeans became a little tight, which I would normally have put down to over eating during the Christmas period, but all the other symptoms seemed to disappear... which bought on the worrying... WAS EVERYTHING OK? With no signs I was pregnant, I was grateful for my first scan.

The 12 week scan was one of the most amazing experiences Andy and I had ever experienced... to most people, it was just a peanut on a TV screen, to us it was much much more. It was the first look at our little baby, not knowing at this stage whether its a boy or a girl, seeing there little heart been on the screen. Made all the worries disappear.... at least for a short time. I promised myself I wouldn't cry... but the moment I saw our little 'peanut' I couldn't help it.

"No one will ever understand the strength of my love for you. After all, you are the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside."