We had the first early scan today with our consultant and although everything’s seemed fine apart from the bleed just after new year, I had a slight feeling that all might not be ok. Maybe I still don’t want to get my hopes up too much as we’ve been so lucky so far to fall pregnant straight away on our second attempt of trying, but I was looking forward to this appointment being over and everything confirmed as ok. I knew the drill by now so as Mr M chatted away to the consultant, I stripped off and climbed on the bed, legs akimbo. The good news was the baby was growing well and we heard its little heartbeat. Phew!

But unfortunately, there was also quite a lot of bleeding around the uterus, and the consultant wasn’t too pleased with me. ‘Have you been taking it easy? It doesn’t look like it’, she chastised. Well, as easy as I can with a job, and a 17 month old who was ambulanced to hospital over the weekend with a chest infection scare. After the bleed at New Year I did take a few days while we were up at mums to take it easy but I thought once the bleed had stopped it would be ok. But apparently not. Even though I hadn’t had any more external bleeding, the internal bleeding around the uterus can be a sign of an increased risk of miscarriage so in no uncertain terms I was told I needed proper rest. So, I’ve cleared it with my boss (who is brilliant thankfully) to work from home and rest when I need to for the next couple of weeks. I’m not very good at it and already on my first day at home got told off by Mr M for attempting to sweep the floor, so now I really am trying. It will be worth it if we can get this little baby safely through the first 12 weeks (and beyond of course) so for now, I’m having lie downs through the day, Mr M is doing everything with our daughter and I’m generally being very lazy. It’s really hard not to be able to pick our daughter up when she asks but hopefully that’ll help to get to the next scan in two weeks and the bleeding has stopped and our baby is healthy and thriving in there. Fingers crossed.