Introducing Jellybean

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So in my last blog post, I talked briefly about an upcoming project that’s crochet-adjacent, rather than crochet related. I wanted to wait a bit longer to tell you all about it, and you’ll already have seen why in the picture below.

Yep! I’m pregnant!

Thirteen and a half weeks pregnant, to be precise. I wanted to wait until I got through the first trimester to tell you all, and also to wait until I had this scan picture to share 🙂

To pre-empt a couple of questions – yes, I’m still chronically ill, and no, there’s no partner in the picture. This little jellybean has been conceived with donor sperm, and I’m doing it solo.

I’ve always, always wanted children, and for a long time – between my health and that of my late mother – it seemed absolutely impossible. I’d get a year older and it felt a little further out of reach. But when Mum died, suddenly another possibility opened up. It wasn’t an instant grief reaction, I spent a lot of time thinking about it, and I made sure I was moved and settled and as stable as I could be, health-wise, before I started the journey. I talked about it a lot with my brother, my ‘second mother’ and my closest friends (this kid is going to have an awful lot of aunties and uncles!), and last summer I started the journey.

And now I am growing a little jellybean 😀 😀 I’m honestly so happy, just completely over the moon, and though I know it’s going to be full of challenges, I’m also just so…at peace with having made this choice and to be going for this.

What will it mean for my crochet? I don’t know! Except obviously there will be a certain amount of baby clothing crocheted over the next few months. Jellybean is due in late August, though, so there won’t be too much newborn crocheted stuff – I’m mostly looking at 3-6 month stuff for baby’s first winter.

So far it’s all going smoothly – no morning sickness (though for about three weeks I had to eat every ninety minutes or feel as though I was going to be sick…), no mood swings, just a little extra fatigue which is easing off now. I can’t button up my jeans any more, but I have some very comfortable dungarees that I’m planning to live in for the next six months. Mostly, as I say, I’m just really, really happy.

So! Things may change a bit around here, but I don’t know how yet. I’ll keep you all posted 😛

xxx

Catherine

33 thoughts on “Introducing Jellybean”

  6. Hi Catherine!

    Congratulations! What absolutely lovely news. I wish you a (relatively!) comfortable pregnancy and delivery, a beautiful healthy baby, and so many blessings for your new life together.

    Please keep us posted on how you’re doing for prayers and good wishes to be sent your way.

    Take good care of yourself!
    Larryn G.
    seventhbeatletoo@hotmail.com

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  11. congratulations on jellybeans. enjoy every minute of pregnancy. keep a daily journal tell jellybean how you live thru these days of waiting for the arrival of the day jellybean finally is put in your arms and you look into each others eyes.

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  17. As with others, I think this is wonderful news and best wishes and prayers are wending their way in the appropriate directions!

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