A year ago I found out I was pregnant, it was the 25th of August and we had just come home from a long weekend in Dublin and after buying some tests at Sainsbury we found out we were to become parents. It all felt rather strange and surreal. We had a very busy year 2008, we had gone to the US, Sweden, Ireland, Finland and the Dominican Republic, both been very busy at work and gotten married. And all that in the first 8 months of the year. We thought we would get some traveling out of the way before we would try for a family in July, I expected it to take awhile to get pregnant so got a bit of a shock when we stood there on the 25th with the positive pregnancy test in hand as it was just a month later. (more…)
Baby, MS and Me Home
Posts Tagged ‘Pregnancy’
16 days…
13th April 2009 by Hellie
Well if the due date is anything to go by I got just over two weeks to go! It all feels very unreal, I am getting very fed up with being this big, but I could do with the two weeks to get the house ready. But we have got a lot of things done this Easter. Steve’s parents came around on Saturday and drove lots of stuff to the tip, and today we are shipping of a lot of stuff to charity that should be picked up tomorrow morning. The painting is nearly done, and I ordered some new kitchen chairs from Ikea along with the cot, that with a bit of luck should show up in a weeks time. (more…)
Bright Sparks
22nd March 2009 by Hellie
Just come back from a great weekend in London. It’s funny but when you no longer work or live there I really enjoy London. But I do feel like a tourist walking around. The tube is still a pain, haven’t had a single person offering up their seat for me and I hate the pushing. Got a bit of that as we walked through Soho for a bit. But once we went up to Kentish Town, I was ok. The hotel we stayed in was nice and I had a lovely time having dinner with Steve and a friend before the gig. She got me a Moomin book, which I was chuffed about. I used to love the moomins as a child, still think the artwork and stories are great. (more…)
To Conceive or Not to Conceive part 2
21st January 2009 by Hellie
I have talked to a few people now who where diagnosed in the 70’s or early 80’s. They were all advised against having children, something that they would not have been told today. Historically, the treatment of people with MS (and I am not talking about medical treatment here) has always been dodgy to say the least. A friend of mine’s grandmother was more or less hidden away in her house waiting to die. My own granddad never got to see any MS nurses or neurologists after his initial diagnoses. They gave him a wheelchair and said “Sorry, can’t help you any more”. During the last 10 years things have changed a lot, specially with disease-modifying drugs arriving on the scene, but also through other research, such as the knowledge that exercise is beneficial, complimentary therapies and, of course, the introduction of MS nurses. Things are still far from perfect, but at least they are moving in the right direction. (more…)
To Conceive or Not to Conceive
6th January 2009 by Hellie
I was reading the MS Trust Facebook group’s discussion forum, and saw a post called “to conceive or not to conceive…”. It was all about a girl who was diagnosed at the age of 24. On hearing the news, her sister blurted out “So you won’t be having any kids then?” To use a sound beloved of Charlie Brown and many fashion bloggers out there: GAH! This is a tricky subject. I can understand that some people will think I’m selfish to want a baby when I’ve been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I don’t know what the future holds for me. At the moment, I work and I can get by without trouble; my biggest problem is fatigue. But nobody knows what lies ahead.
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