I\u2019m currently pregnant with baby number two, and you know how when people say that your second pregnancy will be more emotional? I initially didn\u2019t believe it as I thought it was an old superstition my mother shared. However, there is some truth to it. Although it had nothing to do with my baby and all about my husband. Most of my second pregnancy saw me wanting to hide and fulfill my junk food cravings. However, Ava, my best friend, wanted me out of the house so we could do things together,While making a strawberry milkshake for me as I put my swollen feet up, she mentioned hearing about this cool pottery place. She shared how one signed up for some sort of pottery party. I asked if we\u2019d make pottery, thinking of a hundred other things I\u2019d prefer doing instead. Smiling as she blended my drink, she noted: \u201cNot necessarily. We could just paint pottery instead. Come on, Liv, let\u2019s do it together!\u201d She sold it by noting how we could create stuff for my upcoming baby\u2019s nursery, and I reluctantly agreed but promised her that she\u2019d owe me anything the baby craved that night, and a deal was made, and<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve already told Malcolm to watch Tess for the evening while we\u2019re out,\u201d my friend added.Since she wasn\u2019t the biggest fan of my husband, seeing how she had already spoken to him about our evening made me realize how much she wanted me out of the house.We arrived at the pottery place, and 15 women were booked for the same slot. They all wanted to unwind, sip beverages, and just have fun, all of which Ava had promised me as well. Little did we know that we were in for a wild ride,<\/p>\n
While chatting about birth stories \u2014 the women shared theirs or spoke about someone close to them. Then, one of them started sharing about how she went on a date with her boyfriend, and he had to leave suddenly because his sister-in-law (SIL) went into labor. \u201cIt was the 4th of July, and we were at my flat watching a movie when he said that Olivia was in labor.\u201d She revealed that she asked him why he had to go as it was almost midnight, and they were exhausted. However, he brushed her off, saying it was a family thing and they all wished to be there when the baby was born. My friend and I exchanged looks because my firstborn, Tess, was born on the same day, and my name was Olivia. After that, the woman spoke about her birth story, which happened six months later. I was looking at all the different colors of paint when she said to the group:\u201dBut Malcolm missed it! Can you imagine?\u201d \u201cHe was there for his niece\u2019s birth but not our son\u2019s!\u201d Her Malcolm said he was babysitting his niece, Tess, and couldn\u2019t leave. \u201cWhat are the odds?\u201d Ava whispered to me. \u201cWait, your boyfriend\u2019s name is Malcolm?\u201d I asked the woman, who nodded. Showing her my phone\u2019s screensaver \u2014 a photo of Malcolm, Tess, and myself \u2014 I asked if that was him. She nodded again, looking at me blankly before muttering, \u201cYour husband? But he\u2019s the father of my child, too.\u201d My heart sank, and the room spun as I tried to process things. The pottery party became a surreal nightmare. It dawned on me that my husband had not only cheated on me but had also fathered a child with this woman. The other women exchanged sympathetic glances, realizing the depth of the matter. Feeling overwhelmed, I excused myself from the gathering and left, tears streaming down my face. I stood in the bathroom and tried to get my bearings.Today, I confronted Malcolm, refusing to let this fester, mainly because I was due in five weeks. Before bringing my baby into this mess, I needed to know how to move forward. He reluctantly admitted to his affair and the child he had fathered. Now, I\u2019m eating chocolate and researching divorce lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m currently pregnant with baby number two, and you know how when people say that your second pregnancy…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-1220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"cs-entry"},"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin","display_name":"Arya Roberts","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/q6.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/q6.jpg"},"author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"https:\/\/americapwd.com","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}