My first time pregnancy story
I am pregnant for the first time and I live on a small remote island. This is my story.
BLOG ChapterS
Pregnancy blog: front page
> Chapter 1: I'm pregnant! The initial emotions
Chapter 2: Sharing our good news
Chapter 3: The unwelcomed symptoms of pregnancy
Chapter 4: Initial midwifery appointment
Chapter 5: Hello baby!
Chapter 6: A healthy growing baby
Chapter 7: The happy second trimester
Chapter 8: Gifts & preparations
Chapter 9: Our plans for home birth
Chapter 10: The start of the third trimester
Chapter 11: Birthing options - a decision finally made
Chapter 12: An unplanned trip to the hospital
Chapter 13: Newest third trimester sensations
Chapter 14: Last minute preparations & more gifts
Chapter 15: A scare! Has the baby moved today?
Chapter 16: We are ready for the home birth
Chapter 17: The woes of late stage pregnancy
Chapter 18: The excruciating waiting stage!
Chapter 19: Scanning & sweeping
Chapter 20: Trapped in town (an indefinite hospital stay)
Chapter 21: Baby's birthday! My delivery & birth story
Chapter 22: A quick recovery
Chapter 23: Final thoughts. . .
> Chapter 1: I'm pregnant! The initial emotions
Chapter 2: Sharing our good news
Chapter 3: The unwelcomed symptoms of pregnancy
Chapter 4: Initial midwifery appointment
Chapter 5: Hello baby!
Chapter 6: A healthy growing baby
Chapter 7: The happy second trimester
Chapter 8: Gifts & preparations
Chapter 9: Our plans for home birth
Chapter 10: The start of the third trimester
Chapter 11: Birthing options - a decision finally made
Chapter 12: An unplanned trip to the hospital
Chapter 13: Newest third trimester sensations
Chapter 14: Last minute preparations & more gifts
Chapter 15: A scare! Has the baby moved today?
Chapter 16: We are ready for the home birth
Chapter 17: The woes of late stage pregnancy
Chapter 18: The excruciating waiting stage!
Chapter 19: Scanning & sweeping
Chapter 20: Trapped in town (an indefinite hospital stay)
Chapter 21: Baby's birthday! My delivery & birth story
Chapter 22: A quick recovery
Chapter 23: Final thoughts. . .
Chapter 1: I'm pregnant! The initial emotions
James and I are in a perfect place to have children - we own a smallholding on a remote island in Scotland, offering unique untamed, wild and natural environment which we feel is perfect for a child. I am 25 years old and we’ve been married for 7 years, so it is definitely the right time too. I’ve been dreaming of and wishing for a baby for a while, imagining how amazing being pregnant would feel like and how proud, excited and happy James was going to be. I also know that James has been ready and wanting to be a Dad for about 10 years or so!
We’ve been trying to conceive for about 6 months, which wasn’t always easy as James has been working away a lot but in January 2018 we had the long-awaited exciting news. It was very surreal - we sort of “knew”, before we knew! In better words - we felt the pregnancy before it was confirmed.
You see, for the first time ever I got my dates very wrong (it was a change of the year and somehow I messed up my maths carrying the days forward from the last year!) so when mid-January James asked me if the pregnancy was likely I advised him that we didn’t time it well and will have to wait yet another month. So he went back to work (which meant another week away from home) and I started feeling very tired and had various pains, aches and tenderness (especially around my chest and breasts) that never bothered me before. I sent a message about these symptoms to James (I often complain to him as he always cheers me up!) and just carried on with the week.
James came back home that Friday with a bag of baby clothes he picked up in some of the charity shops and a pregnancy test. I was slightly confused as I had explained to him the conception was not likely, but he said that he had a good feeling about it and I should do the test anyway - so we did it. . .
We’ve been trying to conceive for about 6 months, which wasn’t always easy as James has been working away a lot but in January 2018 we had the long-awaited exciting news. It was very surreal - we sort of “knew”, before we knew! In better words - we felt the pregnancy before it was confirmed.
You see, for the first time ever I got my dates very wrong (it was a change of the year and somehow I messed up my maths carrying the days forward from the last year!) so when mid-January James asked me if the pregnancy was likely I advised him that we didn’t time it well and will have to wait yet another month. So he went back to work (which meant another week away from home) and I started feeling very tired and had various pains, aches and tenderness (especially around my chest and breasts) that never bothered me before. I sent a message about these symptoms to James (I often complain to him as he always cheers me up!) and just carried on with the week.
James came back home that Friday with a bag of baby clothes he picked up in some of the charity shops and a pregnancy test. I was slightly confused as I had explained to him the conception was not likely, but he said that he had a good feeling about it and I should do the test anyway - so we did it. . .
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I cannot describe how elated, happy and excited we both were when the test turned positive! It was a moment of euphoria and bliss, pride and anticipation, relief (yes, we can have children!) and then slight panic. After many hugs James rushed to the internet and within 30 minutes had a list of all baby and toddler essentials located and priced up and a clear plan of what he wanted for the child’s immediate future in terms of schooling and fun educational activities. He was being a very good Dad, to say the least.
So - to recap - I have been dreaming of a baby for a long time, I am extremely lucky to live on a smallholding of my dreams set in a beautiful location, I am blessed with a caring, attentive, loving and supportive husband to whom I’ve been married for the best part of a decade and who was now sitting there planning our future and purchasing baby essentials, and yet . . .
I couldn’t help myself getting swept away by a strong wave of anxiety and trepidation, one I’ve never felt before! I felt as if I was being taken away never to be returned and fell into a pit of exaggerated fear which was sadly expressed by hysterical uncontrollable crying. I am embarrassed to remember this moment now, but it was so real and so scary at that time!
So - to recap - I have been dreaming of a baby for a long time, I am extremely lucky to live on a smallholding of my dreams set in a beautiful location, I am blessed with a caring, attentive, loving and supportive husband to whom I’ve been married for the best part of a decade and who was now sitting there planning our future and purchasing baby essentials, and yet . . .
I couldn’t help myself getting swept away by a strong wave of anxiety and trepidation, one I’ve never felt before! I felt as if I was being taken away never to be returned and fell into a pit of exaggerated fear which was sadly expressed by hysterical uncontrollable crying. I am embarrassed to remember this moment now, but it was so real and so scary at that time!
I don’t know how he did it, but somehow James managed to calm me down, reassure me and give me a cup of tea. He has a beautiful way with words and whenever I feel upset there is always a nice cup of tea headed my way! I realised that I was being unreasonably emotional and that although having a baby is certainly going to be a big change, nothing else had to be different. We will still be us, Eday will still be Eday - only now we’ll have the added joy of rediscovering it, and life in general, through the eyes of a forever curious child. It was such a lovely talk and I felt so loved and appreciated.
The following day we had to set the wheels in motion, go see the island’s nurse practitioner and make it official. After the night of panicking and then talking everything over with James I was ready and excited for a challenge of being pregnant on a small remote island on the edge of the world!
The following day we had to set the wheels in motion, go see the island’s nurse practitioner and make it official. After the night of panicking and then talking everything over with James I was ready and excited for a challenge of being pregnant on a small remote island on the edge of the world!
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