Monday 10th April 2017
Today I cried. It’s rare that my emotions spill out of my usually sensible faculties however news of a Hartley pregnancy took my breath away. The good Doctor Nikos swept up close to me as I sat in his waiting room – of course I stood the instant he opened his office door – and with a loud, proud voice, declared me pregnant. Tears fell suddenly and freely, and my arms embraced his big gowned torso. Doctor Nikos made us pregnant but only just: eleven days of pregnancy have passed. Congratulations came from all quarters of his clinic! Hopeful patients read for embryo transfer; newly pregnant ladies awaiting their scan; the nurse who too my blood thirty minutes prior and delighted clinic staff. I hung around the clinic for the next hour processing the news, reframing my mind and patting my (already plump) abdomen.
Here is the diary of my second pregnancy…