Well here we are..... almost 6 months later and we are now well and truly pregnant! The first 3 months were nerve wracking. Once we had passed the elusive 8 week mark we both felt a little more confident. I most definitely felt a huge sense of relief seeing the 12 week scan, all in proportion and wiggling it's little butt off!
I has been a massive journey for both of us. Mike was still very nervous and cautious at the 20 week scan what with the memories from previous scans. We have both decided we don't want to know the sex. We will both be very happy just to have a happy, healthy baby.
I was quite ill throughout the first trimester which was a shock as I hadn't even been a little queasy with Jasmine. The second trimester has been much better energy wise although I have had a few irritating weeks with hay fever and hives! Our due date is the 5th March 2011.
I am very keen for a natural birth. However after a Cesarean, the high blood pressure in the last pregnancy and the potential auto immune disease there have been some questions as to if this will be possible. Thankfully on visiting the hospital specialist he advised he did not think it was an autoimmune disease. He thought that perhaps the blood reading may have been distorted due to my hormone instability at the time (having just had a miscarriage). He said that I had no other symptoms of autoimmune and that while he would do some tests to rule out any clotting risks he did not consider this a problem. He advised that I may have a tendency to gestational hypertension but that we would not know if this were to be an issue in this pregnancy until the later stages. He did not see any barriers to me having a natural birth other than going past term. If I go over my due date as I have been induced before and had a C-section before they will not induce me they will move me straight to a C-section. The midwifes at the hospital are happy for me to pursue a natural birth too! So there it is! We will just have to wait and see! Fingers crossed this little one wants to come early!
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