Synchronization of Us

Find part one Here

Before i get onto the finding out i was pregnant part you need to understand some basic facts. (Umm dad if your reading you may want to skip to the story )

1 - I got my first period at 7 months pp , Eilidh was conceived about 1 month later (according to u/s) so Rebecca would of been 8 months old .
2 - Rebecca fed around the clock and refused to leave either mine or my husbands arms .

Which of these facts really results in conceiving a child ? I ovulated a month after the period so could not have predicted that, not to mention just when did we find the time to actually make the baby if you know what i mean.
Despite the fact that we did want another child and were just leaving things up to chance my second pregnant still came as a shock , i had convinced myself i would not be able to get pregnant while breastfeeding and would have to make a choice between the two one day.

Now onto the story.

I guess it first starts in March , my mother in laws 50th birthday . At dinner we had a huge meal , as is the norm with me i eat to much . What was the shocker was getting home and spending the evening being sick . Felt horrid but as soon as my tummy seemed empty it stopped.

Fast forward a few weeks to mid April.

I had no real pregnancy symptoms , no period of course but knew i was still feeding alot and that these things could take a while to get back to normal after having a child so was not worried. I had started to feel a little off at times , i had went of my favourite drink and a few other things were making me feel ill . After suffering from horrible migraines all through the first trimester with Rebecca i did not look at these as signs of a pregnancy , honestly it never even crossed my mind.

One morning i just so happened to mention these aversions to my sister and she joked i was pregnant , i laughed and told her no way. Inside though i was all eek why did i not think of that.
It had been 3 months since my period and although not likely it was possible . I know i should have told Craig straight off but felt silly doing so , with Rebecca i just knew but this time felt i would just be worrying/exciting him over nothing (i think i had him convinced i would not get pregnant while breastfeeding also) .
Off i went out for a while and picked up a test , i had more faith in home tests this time around and knew how unlikely a false positive was . Craig was off university that day and we were snipping at each other all afternoon , i wanted the 5 minutes to do the test and needed him to take Rebecca and stay out my way . As i refused to tell him what was up he had no idea why i was in such a mood.

Finally around dinner time i said i was going for a shower (after a big scene about how i was stressed and smelly and needed alone time) , i took the test and jumped in the shower. I fully expected to get out, check it and see it was nothing and go back to my non pregnant life. BUT HOLY CRAP it was positive , my daughter was only 10 months old and here i was having another.

I stared at the test for a minute in shock then left the room and went straight to tell Craig, i just knew if i left it i would chicken out and needed this off my chest. He and Rebecca were sitting in the living room playing and i ran in wanting to blurt it out just as the phone rang, i answered and quite rudely hung up on the telemarketers and just told Craig straight out “Im Pregnant …again”

I actually felt sorry for the poor guy , at least i had some sort of build up but he had no clue. One minute he was playing with his daughter and the next another was on the way. He handled it great though , we cuddled and talked for a while about all the changes this would bring. That evening he went out and returned with a lovely bouquet of flowers and when i was sleeping sent me the sweetest message telling me how much he loved me and our children.

I remember lying in bed that night curled up to Rebecca , she was so young . She was not yet crawling or sleeping through the night , she barely took solid food and i had no idea how i would cope with two. This was the sensible part of me that was terrified , the other part was thrilled . I had wanted this since Rebecca was born , this baby was so wanted and i could not wait to add to our family again.

I made this post to an online mums group i was on then

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OH MY GOSH

I have just had the biggest shock of my life , Im pregnant again

I just had to share with someone and we have agreed to keep it quite till the doctor confirms it.but i have been having symptoms for a few weeks now (nothing to bad just loads of food aversions).

We are happy, if slightly in shock (as you can see below Becca is just coming up 10 months) we were hoping to get pregnant again just not this soon, going by the date of my last period i would be 11 weeks, due 23rd October but Im thinking Im not that far ahead as i almost felt like i got a period without the bleeding in Feb¦.

Im still breastfeeding and praying that i can at least make it till she is one, but would love to Tandem if my body lets me.

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