I was told from a very early age that I could never have children due to an accident I had when I was 2 years old. So as I grew up with this knowledge and did courses at school in childcare and did loads of babysitting for friends and family because learning to accept the fact that I would never become a mum made me love children and everything about them.

I'd look at all my friends and envy them because they had something I was always told I couldn't. Then, in 2004 I lost my granddad just two weeks before my 20th birthday.  I was really close to him and I took it really hard when he passed away.

Three months after this I went to see a clairvoyant and she told me that within 18 months I would become pregnant and have my dream of being a mum, because my granddad had made it happen. This I found hard to believe in one sense because of the accident and not in the other because my granddad knew this was my only dream.

Time went on and I didn't think anything more of it and I started dating a guy. Everything was good for a while and he knew about me not being able to have children and he was fine with that because he didn't want any.  In the end everything didn't go as planned and we went our separate ways, only for me to find out 4 weeks later that I was eight weeks pregnant.

I didn't believe at first that it was real. It took a while to sink in. It was only when I went for my very first scan that I believed it and that's when I found out I was having twins.