Baby Griffiths – due 31st October 2023. It’s still sinking in that I’m pregnant and at the time of writing this, I’m currently 16 weeks pregnant. It’s only here that you begin to feel the rumblings of a baby moving about and I don’t think it will fully sink in until that happens. Even saying, I’m pregnant feels a little alien and almost as though it’s too crazy to believe.
I’m so happy to share this news with my family, friends and on this platform. Over the past year or so, I feel like I’ve neglected my social media feeds and my blogs, focusing more so on my freelance writing career which is the main bread of butter of my financial income. However, I’m really keen to get back into blogging and explore this next chapter as a ‘mummy blogger’. Adding another niche to my blog!
I’ve shared this with some of my friends and family already but our journey into fertility didn’t have the best of starts. This baby will be what’s known as my ‘rainbow baby’ because I had a miscarriage over Christmas – I know, the worst of times for it to happen.
It’s an experience that I want to share at some point but I don’t think I’m quite ready to do so yet. I want to continue this pregnancy with a positive outlook and a calm mind so that my body can bring this baby into the world safely. Despite the sadness that began for us in our fertility journey, joy came back into our lives in February when after just one cycle in between the miscarriage and the next cycle, I got pregnant again.
I remember having a conversation with my mum on trying for a baby and it took her eight months to get pregnant with both me and my siblings. I went into this journey feeling fairly laid back, thinking it would also take me time to get pregnant. Well, I was certainly proven wrong!
There’s no greater joy than seeing our baby on that twelve-week scan and I think after all the heartache experienced the first time, it made the reveal all the more special and meaningful. While there was a lot of anxiety, it was overwhelmed with excitement. My mum and Sam got to experience this with me too, which I’ll treasure forever.
I’m going to share more on my pregnancy journey, especially when it comes to my experience with each trimester as it comes but for now, I just wanted to share our news with the internet on my very small but special platform. UpYourVlog has been with me for nearly 10 years now and it’s one of my longest commitments in life. I’m so grateful to be able to share this news with you my readers and I can’t wait to show more of that journey with you in the future.
I’ve got lots of ideas to share and I want to document all aspects of the pregnancy whether that be my thoughts on home birth (something I’m planning to do with my birthing preference) to everything I’ve bought in preparation for the baby’s arrival. Make sure you keep up to date with it all on my new ‘Motherhood‘ page. There will be plenty of content for you all to enjoy over these never few months.
For those that may be experiencing heartache from miscarriage and need some further guidance, I’ve shared a few links down below that may help and helped me.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/miscarriage/
https://www.tommys.org/baby-loss-support/dads-and-partners/miscarriage-support
https://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/how-we-help/helpline/
For anyone who is interested in hearing about my miscarriage and the experience I had, you can find my miscarriage story here. I want to preference it by saying that this is a triggering post and if you don’t feel comfortable reading it, I won’t take offence. However, I do believe that the more we talk openly about miscarriage, the more it will openly be talked about. It was helpful to me to speak about my experience and get the response that I did from other mums who either lost babies or struggled with their fertility journey.
I’m so happy that I now get to celebrate my pregnancy with you guys online and I’m so glad that the journey so far with this pregnancy, has been a positive one. However, I will never forget the first baby that I had, despite it not reaching full-term or albeit, past the first trimester.
Do you have any advice on pregnancy and navigating this new chapter of my life? Let me know your thoughts and feelings in the comments below.
