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Hi everyone, my name is Dawn and my husband and I live in England, UK with our little princess Mia Rose who is 3 years old. I am 20 weeks pregnant with our second child and yesterday we found out that we are expecting a little boy!!! We are both still in shock I think as for some reason we were not expecting the sonographer to say the baby was a boy.

We had wanted the sex of this baby to be a surprise as was our first child but we decided to find out yesterday at the scan as I was 99.9% sure I would need to have a C-Section under general anaesetic and I wanted to be the first one (with hubby) to find out what our baby was and not to wake up and everyone know what sex my child was before me.

I saw the consultant after the scan and I will be having a c-section. Mia was born via ventouse delivery after 3 long hours of pushing but my situation has changed and I can no longer risk putting my legs in stirrups so this child will be born out of the sunroof!

A bit about me. I was born with spina bifida occulta and after many operations mainly as a child I have led a pretty normal life. I am not paralysed in any way and only in the last 18 months have I started getting neurological symptoms which cause, pain, pins and needles in my leg. After many MRI scans the neuro surgeons have informed me that my spinal cord is tethered and it also splits into two and the tethering could be causing the symptoms I have. Because of this I cannot ever have an epidural and they do not want me to give birth vaginally in case I cause strain on my spinal cord or need intervention as I cannot put my legs in stirrups which would then result in an emergency c-section.

We love our daughter more than anything and cannot wait to meet our second child!