My fast-track FAMILY

Katy Walton went from single mum to married and pregnant in just a few months

- SASKIA MURPHY, CHARLOTTE NISBET.

Seeing two heartbeats on the sonographer’s screen, it felt as though my own heart stopped for a moment. Looking at my fiancé, and the huge smile lighting up hisface, I could hardly believe what was happening. It's not that I wasn't happy, I really was, it was that just four months earlier, Ross, then 32, had been a stranger, and I wasa single mum bringing up five-year-old twin boys on my own. Now, here I was, another set of twins growing inside me, and our wedding day just weeks away.

Ross first moved onto our street in Buckinghamshire in May 2015. He was handsome and friendly, but I wasn’t looking for a relationship. I’d been single since my boys, Noah and Bailey, were just five months old, and although it could be hectic, our home life was perfect.

Well-meaning friends had tried setting me up on blind dates, and I’d had one short relationship, but all I was really interested in was being with my boys.

Only, when Ross started talking to me one day when I was on my way home from the school run, I felt that spark that you hear people talk about. He’d recently moved to the area on his own, and asked if I’d like to go to his for aglass of wine. Of course, it wasn’t that simple. I had to plan babysitters weeks in advance, so I asked Ross if he’d like to come to mine instead.

First dates

That night, we chatted for hours while the boys were in bed. Ross was kind, funny, and incredibly good looking, and I could feel myself falling for him. That weekend, we went on our first date to the pub, while the boys stayed with a babysitter, and when we kissed for the first time, I just knew. From then on, we were inseparable. Most new couplesspend time getting to know each other on first dates, presenting the best version of themselves, perfecting their make-up and picking out dresses to wear to wine bars, but for us it was never like that.