Jemma was absolutely tickled pink during her pregnancy…
It’s a girl!’ the midwife smiled.
Pregnant with my second, I was over the moon.
‘We’ve already got a girl!’ my partner Stephen, 33, huffed.
But deep down he was chuffed, and he already doted on our daughter Isabelle, 3.
My pregnancy was different this time, though. I was sick constantly, unlike with Isabelle.
‘This girl’s giving me grief!’ I said to my mum Carol, 51.
‘Are you sure it’s not a boy?’ she laughed.
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