Well, it's been just over a week since we found out about the little one. It's gone so quickly already, I bet the next 8 or 9 months will go just as fast. Milly's already looking for anything and everything that we need and has bought a few bits and bobs, including a Christmas pudding outfit for next Xmas! Milly's mum has also been picking things up for her house and some maternity clothes for Milly.
We've had a couple of trips out to places too including Meadowhall to look for ideas for the nursery etc. We've both decided that we don't want to find out the sex and so everything we're looking at needs to be neutral. I never really liked that idea much as I didn't want to be stuck with just a load of beige clothes etc but a lot of the things that we're looking at such as push chairs, nursery furniture and even clothes, are what we'd probably look at if we knew we were having a boy or girl anyway as it suits both and is nice.
Milly has sorted a midwife but has to wait till 26th January to meet her. She is desperate for a scan just to make sure everything is ok and also to find out how far along she is. We've worked it out that she's about 5 and a half weeks now but it could be a little longer than that really. I think that sounds about right though. It will be good to see how close our baby and my sisters baby are born as she went for a scan last week and was told she was only about 7 weeks when we thought she was much further along. That means there may only be about 2 weeks between them and that gap could be reduced depending on when they are both born. That would be good for them to be very similar ages growing up together - although that is going to be the case now anyway as even if there ends up being 3 or 4 weeks between them being born, that's still very close! It would be weird for them though if they don't end up being in the same school year as each other, which they won't be if Kelly's is born in August and ours September.
We're having to decide what is best for the house situation too. For the past couple of years we have rented our spare room to various people as an extra required income and it has helped us out immensely. These range from old work mates, to my brother and sister, to a few people we have only met when advertising the room. We've never really made the most of the money though, such as putting it towards paying things off but it has made living in general a lot better as we've had money to do more than we had before. We always said that by the time we had children we didn't want to have anyone renting the room though so we could just be our family. I certainly wouldn't want strangers in though and so when my sister got pregnant and needed to find somewhere to live, we thought it would be good for them to come here.
At this point though we didn't know we were pregnant and although i was against it at first, as I wanted to rent both spare rooms for the next year and get extra money in and spend the next year paying everything off, did come around to the idea of having them here. We ended up asking them when we found out we were expecting and the thought of us all being under one roof with both babies was quite fun. However, a lot of people are surprised by it and now trying to convince us it's not really for the best. There's going to be a lot of hormones in the run up to the births and a lot of stressed ladies! There'd be fights for the bathroom when the morning sickness kicks in and plans for the nursery may not be agreed.
We need to talk together and with them to decide what is best for us all.
Monday, 3 January 2011
Friday, 31 December 2010
Happy 21st!!
We took plenty of precaution in the build up to our wedding in May 2010 as not to fall pregnant shortly before the big day and send the whole planning to cock. However, we both knew (as did many others) that after the wedding it would only be a matter of time before the pitter patter of little feet arrived in our home.
We discussed it on Honeymoon in Italy when the time would be right to start our family and we both felt ready. Many factors in our lives would prevent others from trying so soon, such as finances, risk of job loss, age, experience etc but these could all be factors in 10 years time in this world (probably not the age thing!) and so it was felt that we would start trying straight away. Even on our Honeymoon we were hoping to fall pregnant. Names such as Verona, Roma and Florence became discussed as part of our plans but unfortunately it wasn't to be.
We continued to 'try' upon our return, perhaps not as much as someone ever-keen on becoming pregnant but the closer to the end of the year it got, the more the focus was on the need to be pregnant as not to affect next years wedding of Amelia's sister, Abi, who will be marrying Paul in November. We'd set November as the final month that we would hope to fall pregnant, but when this didn't happen, we were both quite upet and agreed that one more month of trying would still be safe.
We did everything right this month, working out the best dates to conceive and hoped that our well prepared month would bare the fruits. A couple of negative tests brought disappointment as Amelia's period due date approached and the news around us that my sister had become pregnant during this time, not to mention our beautiful niece Elysia's arrival on 31st October, and even a pregnancy scare from Amelia's mum could only add to our disappointment.
Amelia had been given a 'Lucky Test' for Secret Santa from one of her work colleagues who was set to go on maternity leave herself and told her to do it on Christmas morning. As this date approached and coincided with her due date, period pains had already begun and so we weren't holding our breath. We were that convinced that we didn't do the test around Christmas as we didn't want it to upset our celebrations.
I discussed with Milly (now I'll drop the Sunday name!) that I had been feeling like I didn't want to wait until after Abi's wedding to start trying again due to my age and felt we were ready now and Abi would understand if we ended up pregnant during her day. It would just mean a bigger dress for Milly! I was going to speak to Abi to check she was totally ok with this, whilst Milly, who had however been having a few signs of pregnancy, was becoming frustrated at yet another late period, This was nothing new so we didn't see it as a clue to being pregnant.
On Boxing Day, Milly celebrated her 21st birthday. We spent most of the day with various family members and at a Pantomime before heading home later in the eveing to collect some things for a family party at my mums. Milly had decided to take the test to just get it out of the way so we could get on wit our Christmas. Suddenly, a shout from upstairs; "ADAM! It's Positive!" I dashed upstairs to see her confirming this with her test as tears rolled down her face (and pants round her knees!). I checked the test and then felt the delight sweep across my body as I hugged her.
We wet to my mum's for the party and told my sister Kelly and her partner Craig, before telling everyone else know. They were all delighted for us, as were Milly's family when we went to surprise them with the news.
It was certainly the best present either of us could have wished for and has made it a birthday never to forget!
We discussed it on Honeymoon in Italy when the time would be right to start our family and we both felt ready. Many factors in our lives would prevent others from trying so soon, such as finances, risk of job loss, age, experience etc but these could all be factors in 10 years time in this world (probably not the age thing!) and so it was felt that we would start trying straight away. Even on our Honeymoon we were hoping to fall pregnant. Names such as Verona, Roma and Florence became discussed as part of our plans but unfortunately it wasn't to be.
We continued to 'try' upon our return, perhaps not as much as someone ever-keen on becoming pregnant but the closer to the end of the year it got, the more the focus was on the need to be pregnant as not to affect next years wedding of Amelia's sister, Abi, who will be marrying Paul in November. We'd set November as the final month that we would hope to fall pregnant, but when this didn't happen, we were both quite upet and agreed that one more month of trying would still be safe.
We did everything right this month, working out the best dates to conceive and hoped that our well prepared month would bare the fruits. A couple of negative tests brought disappointment as Amelia's period due date approached and the news around us that my sister had become pregnant during this time, not to mention our beautiful niece Elysia's arrival on 31st October, and even a pregnancy scare from Amelia's mum could only add to our disappointment.
Amelia had been given a 'Lucky Test' for Secret Santa from one of her work colleagues who was set to go on maternity leave herself and told her to do it on Christmas morning. As this date approached and coincided with her due date, period pains had already begun and so we weren't holding our breath. We were that convinced that we didn't do the test around Christmas as we didn't want it to upset our celebrations.
I discussed with Milly (now I'll drop the Sunday name!) that I had been feeling like I didn't want to wait until after Abi's wedding to start trying again due to my age and felt we were ready now and Abi would understand if we ended up pregnant during her day. It would just mean a bigger dress for Milly! I was going to speak to Abi to check she was totally ok with this, whilst Milly, who had however been having a few signs of pregnancy, was becoming frustrated at yet another late period, This was nothing new so we didn't see it as a clue to being pregnant.
On Boxing Day, Milly celebrated her 21st birthday. We spent most of the day with various family members and at a Pantomime before heading home later in the eveing to collect some things for a family party at my mums. Milly had decided to take the test to just get it out of the way so we could get on wit our Christmas. Suddenly, a shout from upstairs; "ADAM! It's Positive!" I dashed upstairs to see her confirming this with her test as tears rolled down her face (and pants round her knees!). I checked the test and then felt the delight sweep across my body as I hugged her.
We wet to my mum's for the party and told my sister Kelly and her partner Craig, before telling everyone else know. They were all delighted for us, as were Milly's family when we went to surprise them with the news.
It was certainly the best present either of us could have wished for and has made it a birthday never to forget!
About Us
Ok, so if you're reading this post, well done for finding it, otherwise it's the year 2037 and I've finally decided to publicise it!? This is the third attempt at a Blog and the purpose of it is to share [with nobody] the magical journey that myself and my wife, Amelia, are about to embark upon. Yes, we're pregnant!!
Funnily enough my other 2 Blogs (http://elcey.blogspot.com & http://topwhistleblower.blogspot.com) lasted around 9 months too before posts run dry and whilst this one may serve it's time somewhere around about 2nd September 2011, I do hope to pick up where I left off with the others.Perhaps this one too will be continued after the birth.
Before I start posting regularly about the journey, let's tell you a little bit about us. Well my name is Adam Elce, Im currently (slash depressingly) 28 years old and work as an IT Advisor at a College in Worksop. I have been married to Amelia, 21, since May 2010 and have been together almost 4 years now. We have the greatest relationship probably known to man and the time feels more than right to start our own family with the addition of one or two (or 6!) little people of our own.
So let the journey begin...!
Funnily enough my other 2 Blogs (http://elcey.blogspot.com & http://topwhistleblower.blogspot.com) lasted around 9 months too before posts run dry and whilst this one may serve it's time somewhere around about 2nd September 2011, I do hope to pick up where I left off with the others.Perhaps this one too will be continued after the birth.
Before I start posting regularly about the journey, let's tell you a little bit about us. Well my name is Adam Elce, Im currently (slash depressingly) 28 years old and work as an IT Advisor at a College in Worksop. I have been married to Amelia, 21, since May 2010 and have been together almost 4 years now. We have the greatest relationship probably known to man and the time feels more than right to start our own family with the addition of one or two (or 6!) little people of our own.
So let the journey begin...!
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