Pregnancy with arthritis
During my early to mid-20's, many of my friends had begun to settle down, get married and started having a family. I was still drinking and dancing on tables of a weekend (ok, week day too) and had no interest in any of that. I met my now husband when I was 28 years old, and whilst we married just three years later, I had never been especially broody. Fate took away much of that decision for a large part of my adult life as I'd been diagnosed with a hip condition called femoral retroversion. I've had surgeries to both my hips and knees in 2013, 2014, 2015, two in 2019, and during lockdown in the infamous 2020. Any ideas of starting a family were taken away from me. In between surgeries there were countless scans, steroid injections and various medications. I was asked "when are you two having babies" multiple times over the years. One such occasion being during the evening on our wedding day - whilst still stood in my ivory taffeta dress! But as the years went by...