Mumsjustlove is pleased to welcome Sam to the mumsjustlove team. Sam is a first time mum and will be sharing her pregnancy highs and lows plus like the rest of the team letting you know about any bargains.

Hi everyone. So here I am in week 17, still can’t believe I’m only 3 weeks off the half way mark, time has just flown by.

Had my appointment with midwife today, first appointment of the day and they still seemed to be running late, not a good start! The midwife forgot to bring my blood results so decided to ring the blood bank, thankfully she did because it’s turns out I’m rhesus O negative, not for one minute did I suspect I’d be anything other than the norm, trust me to have “special” blood.

I know a little bit about the blood group because my friend who’s mother to our god child was also O negative, it’s something to do with the antibodies in the blood, if the baby is a different blood group and it’s blood passes into mind then my body will react as if it were foreign cells and will make antibodies against then, I’m told it’s not usually dangerous in the first pregnancy but can be in later pregnancies. So as for treatment, well now I have to have an injection called Anti-D, it’s blood product given at 28 weeks, and a second does once he baby is born should he/she be of a different blood group, I’m not looking forward to it in the slightest, I’ve never liked needles at the best of times but i’ve resided myself to the fact that during pregnancy you turn your body into a human pin cushion!

So apart from the news of the blood my appointment was great, I heard the heart beat for the first time which was amazing, very regular and beating much quicker than I’d expected, it’s such a wonderful feeling to hear it and know that everything is as it should be and progressing nicely.

The rest of the week has been rather up and down and in the last couple of days I have officially become emotionally unhinged, the pregnancy hormones have finally gotten the better of me and I’ve found myself worrying and crying about all sorts of things, namely childcare. I shouldn’t really grumble because to date my pregnancy has been brilliant, no morning sickness or anything so I do consider myself lucky. Thankfully I’ve woken up this morning in a much happier place so will just keep telling myself there’s no point in worrying, things have a habit of working themselves out in the end.

Sam & Bump xxx

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