Pick Me Up!

THIS WAS YOU!

Holding the pregnancy test tight between my palm, I waited anxiously.

Turning over the stick, I couldn’t resist any longer.

It was positive.

Squealing with delight, I ran into the bedroom where my husband Matt, 32, was snoozing.

‘We’re pregnant,’ I shouted, waiting for him to stir.

We’d only got married a few months before, in May 2014, but we had been super excited to start a family.

Waking up every morning, I would look in the mirror to stroke my growing bump.

And at 20-weeks, we went to find out the gender.

We didn’t mind if we were going to have a boy or a girl, we just wanted to know how to decorate the nursery!

‘It’s a girl,’ the sonographer announced.

Matt and I looked at each other in pure delight, with huge smiles on our faces.

‘Hello girl,’ he cooed while rubbing my belly.

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