Her second bump

One of my own today :) Set whilst Snow is pregnant with Neal.

I go back to uni in just over a month so let's get those requests coming in while I can still hammer them out!

88: Isn't that basically what I just wrote but making Henry sick?

Guest: That has already been covered.

On a side note, let the games begin! Let's go team GB!

I forgot what this felt like. I forgot the hippups, the movements, the excitement and anticipation of the birth of the baby inside of me. Sure, there were the negative sides of pregnancy too. The sleepless nights, the sickness, the soreness and such like. But the positives far outweighed the negatives in my book. It was sometimes hard to comprehend that the woman I saw daily was once the tiny baby who grew inside of me like her little sibling was doing now. For nine months, it had just been me and her. She was settled into her own little routine by the end of the second trimester. We were so in sync back then. I knew when to expect her to move around during the day…and more frequently at night. My little night owl. I couldn't quite put that little bump and this woman in my life together as being the same person. How could that be? How could time move so quickly?

Oh how I wish things could have been different for our family. How I wish, much like this baby inside of me right now, Emma had grown up knowing her father's love as well as my own. How I wish the singing and kisses and 'I love you's' hadn't ended after her birth. They shouldn't have. They should have continued years beyond that. Like they will now with our second child. But that won't ever heal the wounds caused by missing out with Emma. If anything it might make them fresh again, at least for a little while. But we will push through the pain, minimizing it as much as possible for Emma. We don't want her to feel replaced. This baby could never do that.

It's funny. Sometimes, when this baby moves, especially late at night, I'll forget thirty years have passed. I'll think, just for a moment, that I'm back at home in my castle and it is Emma moving around inside me. Then I remember. Then I realise that tiny baby is all grown up now.