Of pregnancy

I have officially completeted 18 weeks today. Alhamdulillah.. it seems quicker these days with no/less complications than the first trimester..

We first found out that I was pregnant in the first week of January if I am not mistaken. I had about 3 days of spotting and then it stopped. I felt weird so I used the upt and got the biggest surprise!! 2 lines! We were over the moon!

However about a week later I started to have some spotting. I was re-living a nightmare. No, make it 2 nightmares! Both times i got pregnant before I have experience this same thing, its just the first one it ended up with a miscarriage and the second time it was successful with Afnan. My thoughts at the time, and I still remember it vividly, was that i only had a 50/50 % chance this time. And though we were over the moon, we were quite reserved about the news.

A couple of things that were reassuring about the pregnancy was that at 5.5 weeks we had an appointment withearly pregnancy unit for an ultrasound and the sonographer reported that she could not find the cause of the bleeding as everything looked normal AND that there was already a HEARTBEAT!!! Alhamdulillah.. Oh and the second reassuring fact was that my morning sickness which was in the form of extreme loya and mual were constant and consistent.. alhamdulillah.. well, its to the point that i had to use the motion sickness band usually usually used by fishermen to overcome seasick. it really works, amazing..

Alhamdulillah the bleeding stops after the first trimester.. maybe its just going to happen to me with all pregnancy, only Allah knows. We would just accept the outcomes as it is.. I pray for a further complication-less pregnancy and hopefully after the viva i would be able to concentrate with the preparation birth etc.. I know how unprepared I was previously, from birth right to confinement.. :)

Wish me luck!!