Keeping it TOGETHER

Running to the bathroom, I crouched over the toilet.

‘Are you OK, love?’ my nan Sandra, 71, asked as she knocked on the door, hearing me retching.

‘I’m fine,’ I said, flushing the toilet and opening the door. ‘It’s just morning sickness.’

But ever since I’d found out I was pregnant in November 2019, my morning sickness had been non-stop.

I was exhausted. It was a surprise pregnancy, and although I was excited to be a mum, the sickness took the shine off it.

‘You should see a doctor,’ my mum Sophie, 49, said. ‘This isn’t right. ‘

At two months pregnant, Nan took