Found out this morning 👶

Im terrified, my baby is 10 months old, having an 18 month age gap wasnt the plan at all. Will only return to work for 4 months before im back on mat leave. Terrified to tell family and work incase they judge 🤦‍♀️

Unfortunately I don’t share your feelings. However, I am so overjoyed that your hubby has been supportive and positive! It may be a struggle to get your head around it, but it seems that you’re doing a great job so far and I hope you do manage to find the silver lining. Don’t feel bad for feeling this way, it’s a huge hormonal shift and a shock as not necessarily planned. I’m not religious but someone has this planned for you :) You’ll be okay, you have support behind you and you’ll do great! Allow yourself sometime to worry and be sad as if you bottle that up it may bite you in the bottom emotionally later! I really wish you the best and hope you find all the great things in your beautiful pregnancy soon :) ❤️🥳😍

I’ve had a similar situation. I found out I’m pregnant on 2nd Jan and I have a 14 month old who doesn’t sleep well at all (not once has he slept through the night since he’s been born) and a 5 year old step daughter who lives with us permanently as her mum is very poorly. We definitely wanted another child so part of me is excited and happy but we needed to move to a bigger place ideally first and it’s not good timing with my son still being so young and needy and step daughter understandably very emotional due to her mum being so ill. I’m trying to think of the positives. A new baby is a blessing that so many people dream of and having siblings close in age has so many benefits, they’ll be each other’s best friends. Sending you love. X

@India bless you. My mum had 18m age gap between me and my brother and she said she was glad that happened because a lot of the ‘tough’ years and done and dusted much sooner than a bigger gap. But I totally understand you! I wouldn’t worry about work personally, just think once you have told them, that weight will be lifted and the protections we have now are really good! 😀 xx

@Shannon thank you for your lovely response xx

@Hannah the sleep thing is so tricky. My lad sleeps reasonably well when he’s not sick or teething (which is rare tbh thanks to nursery) and he wakes up 5am latest. I have no idea how a newborn slots into that and how I stay sane! Sorry about your Steph daughter’s mum, that sounds so tough for you all. 😟 Thinking of the positives is definitely the best way I think… we’ve done it once, we know what to expect, how to do things etc so we can do it again… right?! 🙈 Xx

@Stephanie we are so lucky with the protections! Glad i wasnt working to promote any time soon 🥴😆

@Stephanie ❤️

My little girl is 2 at the end of this month as well! I cried so much when I found out I was pregnant again, just in shock. I did think I would do a nice surprise to my partner but it was me crying on the bathroom floor in shock🙈😂but after a week of thinking things through I feel a lot better and excited now x

@Kirsten ahhh how cute what date?! My son is 29th Jan. I’m so worried about how this will affect him at such a tender age. But I guess people do this all the time & we just have to work through it…. Eeek. Yeah I think my husband thought someone had died when I came downstairs crying holding the test…. 🙈 xx

@Stephanie oh my no way! My daughter is 29th Jan😱 Yes it will definitely take a lot of getting used to! Xx

@Kirsten awww how funny!! What date are you thinking you’re due with this one? xx