It was all so Textbook - The Pregnancy

How it happened

I think we all know how it happened but we needed some more assistance than the average couple. I started to go for cycle tracking with my gynae, where every month when an ovulation stick said I was ovulating, I would go into her office for a scan to check where I was in my cycle. Shockingly, I always actually ovulated a few days later than the positive ovulation tests, which is one of the reasons it took a bit longer for us.

But then eventually in May 2024 I saw those two blue lines, and nothing that I thought would happen, happened. There were no tears of joy, no jumping up and down, just the feeling of "Oh - that's what we have been waiting for". I was excited to tell my partner and we were both happy that it was finally our time.

Now the wait for that first scan.

We were lucky enough to go see our alien blob at 7 weeks and hear the heartbeat. Again, there were no tears. Just the feeling of "Oh - ...". I felt guilty for now being emotional, I was just stressed, are they going to make it? Is everything going to be okay? So many questions that could not be answered. We just had to wait and see how the alien grows. We had no cutesy nicknames but we kept an eye on our apps and watched as they evolved into a small human-like creature in my uterus.

We were going for monthly scans and after 12 weeks, we could find out the gender of our little human, we had the big gender reveal and the smoke canon was - pink. A girl to drive her mom mad and crawl deep into her dad's heart.

All our scans went perfectly fine, we were told on multiple occasions that we were having a textbook pregnancy. She was always measuring the average or a little bigger. She was always perfect - she was okay.

We went for all our scans, and our anatomy scan (at 20 weeks) and the feedback stayed the same. Our little girl was growing all her fingers and toes and again that all her results are perfect and within range.

Our 32 week scan in early December went well and our gynae mentioned she was going on leave for 2 weeks. We will be seeing her practice partner and she will be back with more than enough time for our 28 January 2025 due date.