Ayla

  October 1 st – Welcome to the World Around 01:30 Catherine, my girlfriend got out of the bed to use the toilet, this wasn’t unusual given she was six months pregnant. We were used to having our sleep disturbed and we developed this subconscious routine to settle. Catherine would return to the room, turn the lamplight off and get into bed. We’d then turn to each other, kiss, hug and drop off to sleep with her head on my chest. It got to 05:17 – I know this because I checked my phone – and by this point Catherine had returned to the room for a fourth time. She looked worried. Something was up. We’d bought a Doppler a few weeks before for moments just like this as we’d experienced a Threatened Miscarriage which is apparently common but we were caught unaware at the time. A sign of things to come. So I used the Doppler and after thirty seconds or so there was a heartbeat, we were both obviously relieved as Catherine had said having thought about it, she hadn’t felt the baby mo