My name is Claudia Pope. I am a nursery school teacher and have four nieces and nephews. Being around small children and pregnant women has been my sick. I was vomiting the whole day and night for weeks but, subsequently, my yearly appointment with my endocrinologist was coming up. I went to see him, and he put me on all sorts of strong meds after taking bloods because my hormones were so “off balance”. Weeks after being on this medication, I was still unwell and, after everyone teased me and joked about me being pregnant, I took a pregnancy test. Much to my surprise, it was positive! The next few days my world came crashing down, because pregnancy was not at all what I had envisioned and hoped for. It truly was not “the best time of my life”.
