Alex Gladwin Blog

The two days and moments that I found out I was expecting both of my little boys are ones I will never forge -  I remember the exact moments, but then I guess you don't really ever forget the moment that you realise that you're going to start your own family or add to it, do you?

I was at work back in August 2012 when I suddenly started to feel really 'off'. I remember feeling like someone had stolen all of my energy from me. I went from being able to do my job just fine, to resting my head down on the table and really not feeling like I could or wanted to lift it up.

I assumed I'd picked a bug up and that I was feeling unwell. But my friend and colleague suggested that perhaps I could be pregnant. I brushed it off thinking there was no way that how I was feeling was pregnancy related. But she suggested it again and went on to suggest that I should maybe take a pregnancy test. Something inside me must have clicked and I started to wonder if I could actually in fact be pregnant.

So I contacted my Husband Adam who was at work and was due to finish before me, he worked in town so I asked him if he would pick me up a cheap pregnancy test, cheap because I was half expecting it to say 'Not pregnant'.

When I got home I went straight to the toilet - I'm impatient and even though I doubted it would be positive, I really wanted to just know either way. When the test came up positive, I was shocked in the most happiest way. I called Adam in and we both smiled and laughed and hugged and kissed - we we're expecting our first child.

I couldn't believe it. I was so happy, but I didn't want to get such high hopes up only to find out the test was wrong. So I insisted that we drove to the nearest pharmacy and picked up a more expensive pregnancy test (just to be sure). And again - when we got home and I tested, it was positive. We had our first baby, a little boy who we named Ethan, nine months later and we became the proudest parents.