Hi Lesty.

My sister said to me at Christmas that she wouldn't let herself get excited about my baby until I was 6m gone "just in case" - didn't stop her telling the world and his wife though. I didn't tell anyone until after the first scan (at 9w, otherwise it would have been after 14w) just in case, plus my husband thought I may have a brain tumour making all the hormones. Actually, I lie, I told the girls in my office the day before the scan because they'd notice me vanishing with my DH for a couple of hours.

I got so p*ssed off with the horror stories I just told people "well, you had more than one so it can't be that bad" and walked off. Well, aside from one friend who did have a complete horror story for both her births and can't have any more children and is still suffering a couple of years on, but she makes sure she doesn't tell pregnant women her story because it is very rare.

I actually work with women who either can't get pregnant or have recurrant miscarriages as part of my job (or I did work - now on leave) and, much as my heart goes out to them, I never thought that there was going to be a problem with something happening to Liebling. I thought we may have more trouble conceiving than we did, but as I'd just finished helping fit and plumb in a bathroom when I found out I was pg (and 8w pg) I figured it would take a lot to shift this baby - and I'm very grateful for that! It really has stopped me worrying now I know just how tough my little darling is and it really has made me feel we are destined to have this baby - although that hasn't stopped me being careful about things.

I'm actually really looking forward to giving birth (but daren't tell people that!) because I can't wait to meet my baby. And the experience - even if it does all "go wrong" then it's still a new experience and, by and large, pregnancy has been such a fantastic experience I can't wait to see what birth is like! (Although I'd never have thought that pre-pregnancy: that was an experience that I wouldn't mind not having then LOL.)