YOU’RE POISONING YOUR BABY

Slumping over the rim of the toilet seat, the uncomfortable floor of the bathroom was my new home.

For every time I made a sudden movement, in November last year, my stomach would churn.

‘Are you OK?’ my partner Samuel, 20, cried from the comfort of the bedroom.

Only, I couldn’t respond before being violently sick.

‘I didn’t know morning sickness could be this bad,’ I sobbed, heaving.

Finding out we were pregnant, just a few weeks before, we were both elated at the news – over the moon!

We weren’t trying for a little one, however we weren’t making an effort to prevent it from happening either, so the good news was a blessing.

Only, having experienced a miscarriage early on in our relationship, the niggling feeling of losing our baby became a frequent thought.

Especially as the bout of morning