Needless to say, there was a frenzy of What’sApp messages to family and friendship groups at this point – I was super ecstatic at the idea of having two babies and the thought of having twins has never concerned me (I think mainly due to my experience with them through my work). I am not someone who can keep secrets easily, nor did I want to. With our first pregnancy, we told friends and family from 6 weeks. The sonographer mentioned registering with the midwife soon, as a twin pregnancy (on paper) was higher risk but, otherwise, all was good. “You are joking?” he was saying, but we were being deadly serious! Two little babies, two flickering heartbeats, one measuring slightly smaller than the other and, although it was super early days, both appeared as normal for the time being. I looked over to my husband who was also smiling, having later found out that he genuinely thought we were joking with him. I burst out laughing before she even spoke: “Congratulations! It looks like you are expecting twins!”. “What’s that?” I asked the sonographer … “Oh yes!” she replied, moving from one baby to another. After scanning the first bubba and congratulating us, I spotted another flicker in the right hand side of the screen. I lay on the bed, with husband and first baby sat next to me, and didn’t doubt for a second that there wouldn’t be a baby there, given how I was feeling. We went along for an early pregnancy scan at just short of 8 weeks – I am one of those people who would rather know than wait and always feel, for me, it is money well spent.
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#PREGNANT INKLING FULL#
It was upsetting, as I am normally a very high energy person and I began to doubt how I could do another full first trimester of this, whilst looking after my toddler and running a business. I felt far more sick and nauseous, far more lethargic and really struggled some days. For a while, I assumed that this was a normal second pregnancy feeling that goes alongside having an active baby of 10 months who relied on me – unlike with my first pregnancy where I could just flop on the sofa anytime I felt unwell.Īs time passed though, I started to joke with my husband about having twins second time around.
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In September 2018, we found out that we were expecting! I knew from very early on, as early as 2-3 weeks, because already I had an inkling… Something about me felt pregnant, which I didn’t have last time around! Come 5-6 weeks, I was taken down by exhaustion, sickness and was just completely wiped out.