Hello world!

I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to be able to post this after everything we’ve been through.  After what has possibly been the longest 8 weeks of my life, yesterday we were at the hospital for our 12 week dating scan and I am pleased to report that we are officially expecting our second child in early spring 2011!

I found out I was pregnant in July; we decided to go for it despite not having been signed off from the follow-up service at Charing Cross and were surprised to fall pregnant straight away.  Very quickly I realised that having had a previous miscarriage and molar pregnancy was going to make this a very different experience from my first and I don’t mind admitting that I have been a nervous wreck, even after an early scan at 8 weeks showed a healthy foetus and apparently normal placenta.  Yesterday for me was ‘the big one’ and as I lay down on the couch my heart was hammering so hard I thought it would jump right out of my chest!  But ‘Boo’ (as Bubs has christened the baby) was very obliging and stayed nice and still so we could see the heartbeat before doing a little jig just to let us know that he or she is OK in there.  There is no better sight and we feel very lucky.  More than anything I am excited for Bubs to have a sibling and to be a big brother and I hope that he is as close to his brother or sister as I was and still am to mine.

The pregnancy so far has been different from my previous experiences.  I’ve felt much sicker this time and even been sick on a few occasions which I never had with Bubs.  I also seem to have escaped the pregnancy acne that plagued me throughout my first pregnancy, although the crushing tiredness is an all too familiar feature – hence the lack of activity on this poor, neglected blog!  Mind you, that could be because I’m running around after a toddler these days, instead of lounging on the sofa eating cream cakes and watching TV like I did last time.  Regardless, I’m glad to be waving adieu to the emotionally and physically draining first trimester, and looking forward to watching my belly grow, and feeling those first magical kicks.  There have been times when I scarcely believed we would ever be here again and I intend to commit every second of this journey to memory, and to blog – I hope you’ll join me!