Disclaimer: I don't own Abby, Carter or any of the ER 'gang'

Month 3

March 5th 2003 Girls night in tonight and I'm looking forward to it. John's out of town this weekend with work or something to be honest I wasn't paying attention to the details shhhhhh!!!!! Anyway, Deb and Susan are coming round, it's gonna be a riot (did I just say that?!) We're all gonna bring videos and 'sleepover' snacks. I've also bought some hair dye so now's my last chance to look nice before big and fat etc.

March 6th 2003 Last night really was good - I have blonde highlights in my hair and they happen to look quite good but I haven't told John yet. Hmm, that could prove kind of interesting, I don't think I'll tell him there's not much point he gets home tomorrow. I really ate too much last night - there are only so many pancakes a girl can eat!

March 9th 2003 If there was a set of awards for the best facial expressions my friends at County would win, hands down. I'll start with John, he got home on Sunday and saw me while I was watching some soap omnibus he just froze for a few a seconds and then said 'hair looks nice'. I was like thanks, that's nice of you. He wasn't as bad as the others The other nurses were all over me (I don't boast that often honest) asking what shade and make I used, Luka said the same thing as John and I don't think others could quite put there fingers on what had changed.

March 15th 2003 Well, today was fun (note the sarcasm). To start with we ran out of peanut butter - talk about cant get the staff so then John went out to the store for me, which was nice of him but then came back with the wrong kind of PB. Aaaarrrggghhh. This may not seem like a big deal to you but there are some things that pregnant woman/ me expect while carry their partners baby. Then, I completely forgot about my appointment with Dr Samuels I managed to get their only 5 minutes late after John phoned me from Dr Samuels office (lucky sod wasn't working until later - I'm talking about John not Dr Samuels) so when I finally got there I was told that over the next month I should expect to be tired all the time, at this I thought 'yes an excuse to sleep', but oh no, apparently I wont be sleeping very well due to heart- burn and I'll be spending the rest of the time scurrying backwards and forwards to the toilet - oh joy.

March 21st 2003 I'm feeling surprisingly calm today, this is probably due to the yoga session I went to tonight, John wouldn't come with me, he said I should Susan - that girls a bad influence I swear!! He did make it up to me though, lets put it this way, the person who invented showers was a genius, but you know I think I'm gonna stop talking!

March 23rd 2003 Choosing to work in the ER was one of the best decisions I ever made. I mean there are the times when you wish you could sleep for more than 5 hours at a time and there are times when you've been puked on 3 times in the same day BUT if I hadn't have joined the ER 'gang' than I wouldn't have met John and I have to say this job carries a certain amount of satisfaction with it. Today I treated this teenager who came in after being stabbed and I don't know how many times I've seen it but I felt strangely overwhelmed when I saw this lad sitting up and stuff. Pregnancy does funny things to your brain.

March 27th 2003

Not a lot to say today other than the fact that some freak has pinched my store of peanut butter from the lounge - I left it on the table after having to satisfy an 11 o clock craving and when I went back later it was gone. Hmmm, I wonder.

March 28th 2003 I still haven't found my peanut butter. You should've seen the look on Johns face when I told him, pure panic, he looked like I was gonna hit him! I'd never do such a thing.

March 29th 2003 What did I tell you, I thought it would be Susan. Ok then maybe I didn't tell you but anyhow! She made up some story that I wasn't really listening to but she bought me some more so we made up. Speaking of peanut butter.

-- Sorry for the v. long wait for this chapter - I've been concentrating on finishing my other fic and starting a new one not to mention the fact that I can only write on weekends and that I have homework to do. Excuses, excuses I know. Anyway very sorry and hopefully the next instalment will be up soon.