Getting pregnant after two months of dating

There have been times when I've desperately craved simple things, like popping out for coffee with my mum, that I was so used to back home.

Pregnant After 2 Months : We were together 4 months before finding out we were pregnant with DS

Something shifts in your 30s, I believe; you know yourself better and what you want out of a relationship. In fact, I grew up with the notion of whirlwind romance being normal; my mum met and married my dad within a month herself.

Two more kids and 31 years later, they are still married. The truth? But my mom was pregnant within 6 months of dating my dad. Obligatory not me. Here's how we've made it work. We met in the sticky heat of New York City in July. That was certainly the case for me and my now husband when we found out we were expecting only months into our relationship.

For me, it's meant understanding a totally new healthcare system, medical lexicon and approach to childbirth. They got married in September, my sister was born in March. Finding out we were pregnant so soon into dating was a shock.

The American healthcare system is very different to the U. I've realized that a "gentle birth" in the U. Pregnancy is beautiful, but at times gnarly. My friends FaceTimed us for a virtual bridal shower. We've swapped morning cuddles for morning sickness, and have gotten very comfortable talking about my perineum.

Yes, it broke the conventional timeline of most relationships, but it was OUR timeline. Two minutes for a positive pregnancy test to develop, and your world to turn upside down. Reply reply [deleted] •. It takes two minutes for your life to change forever.

We've had to navigate so much newness together.

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Being away from family when pregnant has been tough. The sudden shock that we were going to become parents to a little girl by June — having only met in July — brought us closer together. Those two lines of a positive pregnancy test are lines in the sand of your life; the one before and the one after.

I got pregnant 2 months after meeting my husband. There were times that I felt embarrassed by the un-sexiness of it all the acid reflux, nausea and exhaustion of pregnancy and worried I was no longer "fun. But they have nothing in common and I honestly question whether they would have ended up married otherwise.

People often ask me how our friends and families reacted.

Pregnant early in relationships : two months ago I left a 5 year long emotionally abusive relationship and

But the magnificence of pregnancy is it brings a new level of vulnerability between you and your partner, as you traverse something uncharted together. And, as for our relationship? For my husband, that's meant learning how to swaddle, soothe and become a birth partner.

I have learned that pregnancy, when treated with optimism, joy and humor, can be bonding for a couple. For me, it something to celebrate. I was still going between cities for work. Finding out we were pregnant so soon into dating was a shock.