'How could I tell him, the man who I loved and whose baby I was carrying, that I’d been imagining taking a knife to my bump? I was so full of guilt, I could hardly believe I was having these thoughts.' Juliet Owen-Nuttall writes for MetroOpinion
‘I’m having really dark thoughts,’ I whispered to my husband Daniel.How could I tell him, the man who I loved and whose baby I was carrying, that I’d been imagining taking a knife to my bump? To my unborn baby?longed to be a mum for yearsFor a long time, it was a dream I’d hardly dared believe would come true. But now it was actually happening, my pregnancy had turned into a nightmare.
But even when I got together with Daniel three years later, and he told me I was the woman he wanted to have children with, something didn’t feel quite right then either.While we were there though, I became seriously ill. In hospital back in the UK, doctors discovered I had a horrible infection in my womb and one of my fallopian tubes. ‘You have children already, don’t you?’ the doctor asked. I shook my head, numbly, as he advised that I was unlikely to have them now.
Instead, the doctors warned me my pregnancy was high-risk and I shouldn’t have been trying for a baby. I felt shocked, more than anything else.first scan and saw my baby‘You’re just protecting yourself from a big disappointment if anything goes wrong,’ I told myself, as I refused to break the news to anyone and avoided the baby aisles of shops.
‘Your little girl is still growing but she’s really small. We need to monitor her every two weeks to make sure everything is OK.’
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