From the moment I decided to try for children til I gave birth it was a 14 year journey. There was a couple of years off TTC in the middle (between relationships).

Whilst I was pregnant my biggest fear was miscarriage. I guess the next biggest fear was would I be one of those women you hear about that after many years of TTC find it hard being a mum. I was particularly concerned about it as being 42 I'd also read that older 1st time mums can have huge difficulties adjusting to motherhood - having to surrender that control you've had over your life for so long.

I was pleasantly surprised about how easily I've adjusted to motherhood. Yeah there have been moments, but I've never felt sleep deprived.... tired but no worse than when pregnant. We also didn't get a baby that cries all the time. Not everyone gets that experience. I had a difficult birth, a sick baby at birth and BF didn't work well for us yet by 6 weeks I felt completely normal and things were falling into place routinewise.

Having spent a lot of my pregnancy worried about one thing or another all I can recommend is to try not to dwell on negative things. Although a pregnancy seems to go forever while you are pregnant, once you've had bubs it feels like it was over in the blink of an eye. Try to just enjoy your pregnancy as much as you can as you can't do that precious time over.

Best of luck for a happy & healthy pregnancy.