So initially, I’ve always had the belief that I was infertile..
This belief simply came from the fact that I’ve never been pregnant or had any scares throughout my teens or early 20s when there definitely should’ve been lol.
I’ve had long term relationships before where I haven’t used birth control and one’s where I have but I still had no scares or slip ups.
So now at the age of 22 and hearing everyone else’s stories around me I thought it was a bit odd that it’s never happened to me, so I guess I just talked myself into believing I was infertile.
That was until I met my partner 😂 !
Me and my partner met at work and jumped into a relationship quite fast… we was enjoying every moment, spending hours on the phone, getting drunk, eating our souls away, date nights and going on trips to hotels.
Of course, in any new relationship you have the conversation about ‘what happens if we get pregnant’ and we basically agreed that we’d be happy to make each other first time parents.
So now that’s settled, I guess at this stage of the relationship (still early on) we were almost trying but not trying at the same time. As in, we wasn’t doing anything to prevent me getting pregnant, but we also wasn’t saying we’re outright trying for a baby if that makes sense.
After getting my second cycle throughout the relationship, in my head I just thought it’s still not gonna happen for me, it never has and it probably never will…
So…
It was a few days until my third cycle was due and for some reason this one was different. Normally when my cycle starts I have a heavy flow straight away and a light flow towards the end. But this one was different!
I was bleeding but when I would remove the tampon it would have little to no blood on it and the blood was a dark brownish colour..
Of course I thought it was strange but I just thought this cycle is taking a while to kick in !
Anyway, the next few days were the same, little to no bleeding but I didn’t question it, I just counted myself lucky because usually my periods are a nightmare for me lol.
Now my cycle is over and every time me and my boyfriend were intimate I would get this painful cramping feeling on the right side of my lower stomach, the pain was unbearableeeeee
This would happen every single time we would have sex and it would just completely ruin the vibes lool!
Anyway, after spending weeks at my boyfriends house I finally returned home to my family. The first thing my mum said to me is that I look different… I said lol ok mum you’re so dramatic 😂.
Me and my mum have the best relationship so we talk about everything, I asked her if she’s had her cycle yet because normally ours come at the same time. Then when she asked about mine I explained to her how weird mine was this month.
Straight away she laughed and said I should take a pregnancy test.
Then I laughed😂 because I thought what’s the point, I know what the test is gonna read and they cost like £1000 for one test I’m not wasting my money.
So long story short she went and got a test for me, I took the test and the words I never thought I’d see….I’d seen
Of course the test said ‘Pregnant’
Now looking back, the only sign I was pregnant was the weird “period” which I now obviously know was implantation bleeding and not actually my cycle.
I did start having bad heartburn but that’s usual for me so I thought nothing of it.
So of course at this point I updated my Flo chart and found out I was around 5 weeks pregnant.
The moral of the story is – whenever you feel like somethings not right or a bit different… QUESTION IT!
-S
My Start To Parenthood 