Now that I’m well and truly past the half-way mark in my second pregnancy (and consequently displaying early symptoms of baby brain), I wanted to get my thoughts down on a page before this all fades behind those rose-coloured glasses I’ll no doubt be wearing while in the newborn bubble.

So here are nine truths I’ve learned in my second pregnancy (so far).

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Truth #1. You’ll start showing earlier.

I announced my first pregnancy when I was 20 weeks. That’s how long it took for my belly to show. Or so I thought! In hindsight, I could’ve passed it off as a bloated tummy or a food baby. See evidence below.

This was my bump at 26 weeks... still barely a bump by comparison to this second pregnancy.

And here I was, in the third trimester...

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