On Halloween 2016, about 7 months ago, we decided to start trying for a baby. Soon after I started writing this blog but just to the desk drawer as I didn’t actually publish the blog or tell anyone about it. Just like I didn’t tell anyone about our baby plans. I didn’t know if either project would actually see daylight but writing this blog has been therapeutic.
After the wonderful experience of seeing our baby on the ultrasound scan last Tuesday and hearing that our pregnancy is going well (as far as doctors could tell at this point), we decided it was time to share the big news with our friends!
And today I decided it was time to launch this blog. To me, this blog has been a platform to express my feelings and thoughts during the process of becoming a mum while working in the City and aiming to maintain my fitness level to have a healthy pregnancy and baby. For you reading this: Welcome, I hope you enjoy it! 🙂
Yesterday we celebrated the start of the second trimester, our love and happiness. We even did something we rarely do – we went for a fancy dinner with a view. We enjoyed a lovely 8-course (!!) tasting menu at the restaurant Fenchurch in the Sky Garden with gorgeous views over the River Thames.
We also posted the top most picture on social media to announce our pregnancy. I still get emotional reading through the lovely messages and congratulations we’ve received. Being pregnant has already changed my life and I love my unborn baby so much, but in all honesty, I thought that to most other people it’d be just another baby… But I’m truly touched by how much people have cared!!
We took a taxi home around 10:15pm feeling happy and blessed (and full after all that food!). Little did we know about the tragic events that were taking place just 5 minutes away from us, on London Bridge and the Borough Market where innocent people were getting killed in a terrorist attack.
I feel shocked, angry and incredibly sad. And scared. I can’t but count my blessings – someone was looking after us again last night. There is no hiding from the fact that in addition to love and miracles (such as babies!), there is so much evil in the world. But we can’t let the fear win. Life must go on, we need to stand together to protect ourselves and each other. I have a new life to protect in me too. Receiving so many heartfelt messages today, to confirm our safety as well as to congratulate us for the baby, has helped to reinstate my belief in the good in people today.
Life is such a miracle. How could anyone feel they have the right to take a life?
Stay safe <3
xoxoxo,
Sini