Week by week, portrait of my pregnancy

The day I found out I was pregnant is still as vivid in my mind as though it were yesterday.

Alastair, my partner of five years, and I had only just started trying for a baby, and suddenly - far sooner than I had expected - it was happening.

I was thrilled, of course. I called Alastair, a restaurateur, and asked to meet him for lunch.
He says he knew from the grin on my face what I was about to tell him, even before I produced the pregnancy test stick from my handbag. I spent the rest of the day grinning from ear to ear, trying my hardest to work, but all the while thinking: ‘Wow, I’m pregnant!’