Hi All
Sorry it has been so long, I promised to post sooner but it has all been so mad! I thought I’d give you a proper insight into our pregnancy story so far as I am now 20+5 days now!
Ok, so we found out I was pregnant when I was almost 8 weeks! My sister happened to be here and my hubby was away for the night…a really exciting time but also quite scary at the beginning. We had been trying for a baby for quite a long time so we were really chuffed with our little miracle. However, for the first few weeks we were very anxious as we had to have an emergency scan and were worried we might lose our little one. Luckily, all went to plan and here was the first piccie we got at 8+3 weeks:
And this was the picture that made us call our little one ‘Smudge!’ Self-explanatory I guess lol. Such a relief that all was ok and so we began to think about preparing to tell people. We didn’t want anyone to know until we were 12 weeks along but a few had to know like work but we also chose to tell a close friend each as we really needed to talk to someone else about it all!! It was a very nervewracking few weeks as we’d had a rocky start but our 12 week scan finally came around. Super nervous when we rocked up but all went fine and we got to see something which looked a little more like a baby!! Here you go, Smudge had definitely grown:
We had already planned how we were going to tell our parents and went on to do that the following weekend, including wool for my Mum to knit with and a Grandparents book for my in-laws! The following few weeks saw more people finding out, of course we had to announce it on Facebook and it also saw the summer holidays begin for me (came just at the right time as the tiredness had really started to set in!!) It has then been quite a lazy summer holidays…went to see my Mum for a week and to celebrate my sister’s 21st! And then had results day at school, a rewarding moment as a teacher to see those who have worked hard do well. But it has been strange as I’ve wanted it to go slow because it is the holidays but also to go quickly because we wanted to go to our scan! Had a lovely week with the hubster as he was off for a week and we started clearing out the spare room to turn it into a nursery and then we finally got to our scan day!! Anxiety was really taking over at this point as I hadn’t felt baby move so was worried, although a bump is forming so I knew Smudge was growing!! But…it was the most amazing thing! The sonographer was absolutely fantastic, she went through absolutely everything and my favourite bit was definitely the little close up of the feet and hands! Really looked like a little person which I know sounds really silly but it made it a lot more real! I was on, and still am really, a real high after the scan and all is well. Here is our latest and probably last little piccie:
We were also strong and have remained ‘Team Green!’ We decided we wanted a surprise when baby is born so now everyone is guessing lol!
And that is where we are up to so far. What I would like to do is use this blog to show you our recent purchases and note down any symptons etc I may be having so it is like an online journal!! Not sure how much I will be able to blog when back at work but will try!
I hope you enjoyed that and that I haven’t bored you too much! Will try and keep you updated if you are interested!
Thanks for your well wishes!
Hugs
Arline
xx
I am hoping to keep this one for my cardmaking and my new one for scrapping and SMASHing! 
My first experience with them was stressful but very positive.
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