Rachel's story
Becoming pregnant at 35 after trying for so long, has been a daunting experience. At only 9 weeks I've
found that I've become bad tempered and on occasion resentful of my partner.
I suffer with fibroids and at the best of times its painful to say the least and being pregnant although it’s
something I longed for is not at all that I’d expected.
With all the pain I'm experiencing and the morning sickness and being constantly tired at times I wish it would end, but
then I wake in the night and find myself touching my stomach and smiling to myself thinking I can't believe I'm going to be
a mum, I am one mixed up women, roll on 40 wks.
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Trudy's story
I found out I was pregnant seven weeks before my wedding. I was overjoyed since everyone told me that after 30 it takes
months and even years of trying to actually get pregnant. I got pregnant the very first try.
I had a textbook pregnancy, with the usual morning sickness for about 12 weeks. Then at 27 weeks I mentioned to the doctor
that I had Braxton Hicks contractions every 15 minutes, every day and every hour. He immediately threw me into the labour
ward for monitoring. Guess what? They were not just Braxton-Hicks contractions and my son was born 12 hours later, he was
small but health, I am so glad I got them checked, I can't imagine where he would have been born if I had carried on ignoring
them.
