WHO HAD NO IDEA OF PREGNANCY
regular periods. Evelyn’s arrival came after a worrying time for Charlotte, who was overweight in her 20s and feared that might prevent her having children.
“I was 27 stone and my periods were very irregular, so I knew falling pregnant would be a struggle,” she says.
In 2015, after a diplomatic word from a friend, Charlotte joined Slimming World, started working out and lost a whopping 15st in 18 months – dropping from a size 30 to size 12-14.
She now writes a blog about her weight loss journey, called Slimming and the City, and shares exercise and recipe tips. In 2017, she met Dominic on Tinder and embarked on a longdistance romance with the telecommunications company director, who has lived in Amsterdam for 12 years.
While they had discussed marriage and children, neither was prepared for the shock birth of baby Evelyn.
Charlotte adds: “Because of lockdown, we’d been apart for 11 weeks, so when I got to Amsterdam three weeks ago, we had a lovely reunion.
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“Who could have guessed just a few weeks later we would be parents?”
Luckily, Charlotte is not a big drinker and hadn’t been consuming much alcohol during her pregnancy. She exercised vigorously daily – running,