We're pregnant? OMG we're pregnant!!

At the beginning of January 2011 I told my husband (then my fiancé) that I was broody and that we could get a puppy (having already got a number of cats) or we could start trying for a baby.

We bought our Shih Tzu puppy, Max, home on January 19th. On Febuary the 8th I discovered I was pregnant.

Hubbie still wants me to return the dog as he thinks I cheated him out of a fair deal..

To explain the utter shock that we went through when we found out I was pregnant I need to tell you a little bit about us. My husband has a low sperm count, and had previously been told he would not have children without the use of IVF, and even then he'd be lucky. I have PCOS and had previously been told that I would likely struggle to conceive without the use of IVF or similar.

As you can imagine, with these two health problems combined my husband and I were under the impression that we would not conceive naturally. We discussed this issue early on in relationship, and had determined that there is more than one way to have a baby, and that if we really wanted one we would find a way. We discussed sperm donation, egg donation, and adoption. So, when I say that I told my husband we could try for a baby, what I meant is that we could both start losing weight, getting fitter, and speak to our GP about IVF or what our other options would be. I could not have imagined that within a few weeks we'd be pregnant without any help at all! But that's what happened. Froglet really is our little miracle baby. When I went to my GP to tell him I was pregnant and explain my shock he laughed and said 'It only takes one sperm, and one egg to fall pregnant'. How right he was.

I will always be grateful that we never had to go through the pain and cost of IVF treatment, that we were lucky enough to conceive naturally and have this beautiful child that we can see ourselves in every day.

The photo of our first scan means so much to me. Our child looked like no more than a little tadpole. But she was there, and she was healthy and growing, we just had to keep her that way.