The overwhelming sense of relief I felt getting the call from our midwife, brought me to tears. After our NHS screening flagged us as high risk for both Edwards & Patau, the NIPT test (which is based on DNA) came back as low risk!!! Phew!!! 😅
Now, after 8 agonising days of waiting, we can finally commit to thoughts of our future together with our rapidly growing little bouncing baby.
You can think a lot of negative thoughts in 8 days... we had to discuss whether we wanted to know the gender if the result was bad. We talked through life prospects of children with both conditions, the horrible termination options & likelihood of natural miscarriage (and how it would be handled) for a baby of 15 weeks +
Some very dark thoughts... my heart goes out fully to the poor couples who have had to handle bad news and a firm diagnosis. 💕 💕
The silver-lining on the passing stressful cloud, was that we now know that our little bouncing bean is a little boy!!! 💙💙💙 Haha!
We just hope he doesn’t inherit too many of DH’s traits, or else we will have a right tear away on our hands 😂
So, so, so, so happy!! 🤗 Thank you to each and every one of you who have offered such heartfelt support over this past week. You are all truly beautiful humans & I wish you all the happy endings you deserve xxx
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It’s absolutely amazing what they can do!! I mean, extracting and profiling fragments of baby’s DNA from my blood! It’s utterly space age!! Very glad that there are so many capable medical minds out there 🙌
I am so happy to read this what wonderful news you have been through such a lot of stress and worry how wonderful to know that all is well with your precious little boy hope you can get excited and enjoy the rest of your pregnancy x
Oh my goodness, absolutely!! Thank you science brains 🙏 🧠💛 So excited to know it’s a little boy so early. But then, his head is so massive, it’s no surprise really 😂😂
Keep us posted as your pregnancy progresses, hope all goes just perfectly for you xx
Yay! I am so happy for you: such good news. Now you can (do your best to!) look forward and be optimistic. Wishing you a healthy and peaceful rest of pregnancy. When is your due date? xxx
Oh how lovely! That is actually my daughter’s birthday! I am only now starting to relax a bit and looking forward at 23 weeks! Good luck with it all xxx
Oh wonderful! 15th December is a good day to be born ☺️
I’m glad you’ve been able to relax now (I was positive I’d be relaxed after our first scan at 7+4, but every milestone is a worry).
So that was the first trimester! It’s been relatively kind to me, but (except for when I have post-meal bloating) don’t look pregnant at all! When did you get your bump? Xx
My husband literally said “where did that come from, I was only looking at you getting undressed last night and it wasn’t there!”
It’s not obvious when I’m dressed, thankfully, as I don’t want parents at school to know until September- my new class don’t need to be worrying all summer about their teacher going off on leave.
I popped pretty early with this one (I think because everything is (ahem) looser! I didn’t want to tell people at 14 weeks but had to as people were already guessing. It was definitely bloating but in a baby bump kind of way which was fortunate! With my first I definitely had a baby bump by my 20 week scan xxx
I guessed with my oldest friend at eleven weeks when she was having her third... and all I did was drive past her walking on the street! It definitely shows more if you’ve had babies before!! 😂
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I hope the rest of the journey is stress free for you all xxx 
OMG we got our BFP!!! :-D
We got a start date!Happy Birthday to meee ❤
It’s been a waiting game but got a long awaited call! 
