A battle in the womb
Sep 03, 2020
5 minutes
Pressing her ear against my belly, my little girl listened intently.
‘That’s right,’ I smiled at her.
‘There’s a baby in there.’
A few hours before, in December 2018, my husband Adam, now 26, and I had sat our daughter Devon, then two, down to reveal the good news.
‘You’re going to be a big sister,’ Adam explained, and Devon had been over the moon.
‘A little sister for you to play with,’ I added.
‘We don’t know it’s a girl,’ Adam laughed.
‘I’m sure it is,’ I said. ‘I can feel it.’
A few weeks of morning sickness passed by, and at my 20-week scan at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, I was proved right.
‘Congratulations, you’re having a little girl,’ the sonographer
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