Well I suppose it’s time to jot down a little update on my second pregnancy! It still feels weird writing that. I’m pregnant. Wow.
A while ago I wrote a post on thinking about baby number 2. If you would have asked me earlier in the year I would have been completely against the idea. Not because I didn’t want a second baby, just because I was absolutely not ready.
Fast forward to July and we just decided to go for it. Just like that.
It’s my 30th birthday next year and it dawned on me I would love to have my second baby before then. That only gave me a small window to start trying. Crazy as it sounds, that was one of the reasons I changed my mind about trying for a baby!
As well as that, we realised Lamb needs a sibling. He loves his cousins and loves being around his friends, but as with any toddler, he’s getting a little spoilt and we decided now’s the time to introduce a new member of the family to share with and love.
It was late July when we threw away the protection. I knew nothing would happen for the next month as I had missed ovulation, but we decided to get into the swing of things 😉
Mother Nature arrived in August (as expected) then the trying commenced.
As we approached mid September I realised I had no idea when my period was due. I’m so rubbish at keeping a note of things like that. I wasn’t using a period tracking app. Those things become too stressful. Constantly worrying about tracking intimacy, ovulation, fertility. Blah, blah, blah.
I just got on with things and let nature take it’s course.
Well, it’s seems nature had been hard at work and my period was late. September 13th my friend did a little digging and worked out my last period was on the 10th August, which made me 1 week late.
There you go. Did I even need to do a test? I was a week late!
I had some of those cheap tests at home, so decided to do a couple that night. I’m sure you can all guess the result. Yep, I was pregnant!
My husband was pretty shocked. I mean, we got pregnant in the first month of trying! We honestly thought it would take a few months to conceive. We gave ourselves that time to prepare mentally for the expansion of our family. But, turns out we had thrown ourselves in the deep end.
When we were trying to conceive Lamb it took us 3 months. The first 2 months came back negative. I was using apps to track everything. Constantly checking we had been intimate enough. Too much pressure. The third month I deleted the apps, we went on holiday, I had 1 too many cocktails (or 6 too many) and abracadabra we made a baby!
This was the exact reason I didn’t use any apps this time. Trying for a baby can be stressful enough without constantly checking your phone to see if you are doing it right.
I’m now 13 weeks pregnant. We had our first scan on (remember, remember) the 5th of November. We made a little announcement video which you can view here.
Although trying for a baby was super easy for us this time, I haven’t had an easy first trimester. We’ve had the worst luck one family can have in the last 2 months, which I’m sure you’ve heard me moan about on social media.
Things are looking up, but I want to go back to the 21st of September and expand on what happened to me that day. But I’ll leave that for another blog post…
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Congratulations <3 <3 I remember how easiily I fell pregnant with my first two children but it was a struggle with my 3rd.xx So delighted for you and your brilliant news <3 <3 Your future baba and lamb will be best friends for life.x
Ahhhh thank you for your lovely message. Lamb is already telling me he’s going to play trains with the baby and share his train set! So cute xx
Aw bless you Alex, congratulations! I can’t believe … The first month that is amazing. It was obviously meant to be then. Xxx
We were the same with number two, and number one, so easy, number three not so easy fingers crossed it will work out soon!! Congrats though so pleased for you all and I adore the clothes you’re designing!!
Ahhh thank you, I can’t wait to start selling! Fingers crossed for number 3! We will probably stop at 2, but I never say never xx
Congratulations 🙂 I am 2 weeks in front of you, we were 15 weeks on Monday with our second. Look forward to hearing about the updates xx
Oh wow conrats! I probably knew that but there’s such a blogger baby boom at the mo, it’s hard to keep up! xx
How lovely! Gotta admit that I was apptastic when trying to get up the duff but some people work better with free flow and some people have control issues 😉
I was apptastic with my first, but this time I just couldn’t be bothered! xx
Congratulations! It can be so stressful hoping to get pregnant. I was pregnant with my second when I had my 30th birthday last year.
Congratulations – sometimes I think you can over plan things. Sometimes just acting on it is better than trying to plan it all out.
Congratulations! A friend of mine had something similar – she was all psyched up to have to try for a while and fell pregnant the first week 🙂 But it can be very stressful so definitely better that way around. Hope everything else improves for the rest of the pregnancy, it sounds like you need some easier months.
Congratulations on your second child you must be so pleased and it will be wonderful for lamb to have someone to keep him company. I saw someone said something about a car crash in the comments what happened? x
Thank you 🙂 at the moment he’s excited about having a brother, although we don’t know the sex yet! I had a car crash in September when I was 6 weeks pregnant. A woman slammed into me for no reason and wrote my car off. Scariest day of my life, I blogged about it if you want to read it xx
Ahh this made me so happy! Often the best surprises are ones like this. Arlo was a surprise sprog too, i’f had one non-period since having athena and BAM first time lucky 🙂
So chuffed for you Alex. Sorry to hear about the work front…I got hit with that 1 week into mat leave, so still get smp at least. Looking forward to following your journey x
Thank you 🙂 Sorry about your job too! As the company was made insolvent I should be able to claim SMP too, but we will see xx
Congratulations hun, I am 2 weeks behind you, 11 weeks today 🙂
Ah congratulations! Huge baby boom at the moment! xx
We’ve been so lucky both times that we’ve never had to ‘try’ to have a baby – I’m just extremely fertile haha. I’ve been worrying about you and your car crash since you announced! Hope all is ok xx