I'm really pregnant!

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Erica’s Diary - Week 6

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I'm pregnant!
I'm really pregnant! I can't believe it – I'm going to be a mum! We’ve
been on our honeymoon in Jamaica and have been back in England for 2 weeks. I
just felt rotten in JA (Jamaica) although we did have a great time. Imagine
we’ve been scuba diving, horse riding. I clambered up Duns river falls. I just
though that these gouty feelings I was having was the stress after the wedding
and the flight over to JA

On Tuesday
after we got back to London I made an appointment to se My GP on
Streatham Place Doctor Singh He was very up beat saying yes I could have a bug
or a virus and he would go some blood tests as well as a pregnancy test – The
thing was my consultant had advised me not to get pregnant as I had been doing
test to see if I was suffering from Polycystic kidneys like my mum. Really
did not think I was pregnant

When I got the
news from the doctors office – even though I was a little scared I was
over the moon this was perfect my baby was a honey moon baby created from pure
love and no matter what Doctor Wing my consultant at St Thomas said I was happy
to be coming a mum

I was going to
play it cool when
Steve came home, but as soon as he came in the door I had to tell him – I was
too excited to pretend. He looked stunned for a minute, then he gave me a huge
hug and a big kiss! We spent the rest of the evening going 'We're going to have
a baby' and 'You're going to be a mum/dad' to each other. We had to tell my mum
straight away but I would ask her not to tell anyone until I was eight weeks.

The next day I
got a bit freaked out
thinking back to how much we had done while in Jamaica before I knew I was
pregnant – in the last few weeks I've been to a so many celebrations with our
family in JA and even though I am not a big drinker could I have drunk too much
and it affect my unborn baby but when I saw my GP, Dr Singh, he reassured me.
She gave me loads of information to read and told me take folic acid. He also
booked an appointment for me with the midwife and gave me a form for free
prescriptions.

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